Quotessence
Home / Books / Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

Book by Cormac McCarthy · 3 quotes · War, Fate, Violence

Filter quotes by topic

AllWarFateViolenceBlood MeridianDeathDesertDestinyHistoryHuman Nature215249328 32956AgonyArtBetrayalBuffaloCivilizationCormac MccarthyDavy Brown

Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West Quotes

“This is an orchestration for an event. For a dance in fact. The participants will be apprised of their roles at the proper time. For now it is enough that they have arrived. As the dance is the thing with which we are concerned and contains complete within itself its own arrangement and history and finale there is no necessity that the dancers contain these things within themselves as well. In any event the history of all is not the history of each nor indeed the sum of those histories and none here can finally comprehend the reason for his presence for he has no way of knowing even in what the event consists. In fact, were he to know he might well absent himself and you can see that that cannot be any part of the plan if plan there be.”

WarDestinyHistoryFate328 329
Book:Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Create image

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.”

LifeFate
Book:Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
Create image