Author: Cormac McCarthy

Cites

• Paul Valéry (1)
  • IN: Blood Meridian (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, commited with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time.
    FROM: Le Yalou, (1895), Essay, France
• Jakob Böhme (1)
  • IN: Blood Meridian (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: It is not to be thought that the life of darkness is sunk in misery and lost as if in sorrowing. There is no sorrowing. For sorrow is a thing that is swallowed up in death, and death and dying are the very life of the darkness.
    FROM: Six Theosophic Points, (1620), Book, Germany
• NULL (1)
  • IN: Blood Meridian (1989) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Clark, who led last year's expedition to the Afar region of northern Ethiopia, and UC Berkeley colleague Tim D. White, also said that a re-examination of a 300,000-year-old fossil skull found in the same region earlier shows evidence of having been scalped.
    FROM: The Yuma Daily Sun, (1982), Article, US

Cited by

• C.J Box (2)
  • IN: Off the Grid (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
    FROM: Blood Meridian, (1985), Novel, US
• Dennis Lehane (1)
  • IN: Live by Night (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
    FROM: Blood Meridian, (1985), Novel, US
• Aaron Gwyn (1)
  • IN: Wynne's War (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: He spoke of his campaigns in the deserts of Mexico and he told thm of horses killed under him and he said that the souls of horses mirror the souls of men more closely than men suppose and that horses also love war. Men say they only learn this but he said that no creature can learn that which his heart has no shape to hold. His own father said that no man who has not gone to war horseback can ever truly understand the horse and he said that he supposed he wished that this were not so but that it was so.
    FROM: All the Pretty Horses, (1992), Novel, US
• Brian Hodge (1)
  • IN: The Convulsion Factory (1996) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: “Tell me what dreams may come…” All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.
    FROM: Blood Meridian, (1985), Novel, US
• Matt Bell (1)
  • IN: Cataclysm Baby (2012) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping thing, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth.
    FROM: The Road, (2006), Novel, US
• Brian Panowich (1)
  • IN: Bull Mountain (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.
    FROM: Blood Meridian, (1985), Novel, US
• Thomas Mullen (1)
  • IN: The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Men's memories are uncertain, and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.
    FROM: Blood Meridian, (1985), Novel, US
• Marco Missiroli (1)
  • IN: The Sense of an Elephant (2012) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been.
    FROM: Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, (1985), Novel, US
• Philip Kerr (1)
  • IN: Prayer (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.
    FROM: Blood Meridian, (1985), Novel, US
• David Joy (1)
  • IN: Where All Light Tends to Go (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.
    FROM: Blood Meridian, (1985), Novel, US
• Nickolas Butler (1)
  • IN: Beneath the Bonfire (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The Good Book says the meek shall inherit the earth and I expect that's probably the truth. I ain't no freethinker, but I'll tell you what. I'm a long way from bein' convinced that it's all that good a thing.
    FROM: All the Pretty Horses, (1992), Novel, US
• Krys Lee (1)
  • IN: How I Became A North Korean (2016) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: The question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.
    FROM: All the Pretty Horses, (1992), Novel, US
• Richard Kadrey (1)
  • IN: The Getaway God (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They stood on the far shore of a river and called to him. Tattered gods slouching in their rags across the waste.
    FROM: The Road, (2006), Novel, US