Blood Meridian Quotes

“People see what they want to see.”

“Men are made of the dust of the earth.”

“The hour that followed was a long hour.”

“But ingratitude is more common than you might think.”

“I can man anything that eats. Get me a piece of jerky.”

“I could have been somebody in this world wasn’t for him.”

“You can’t be all Mexican. It’s like being all mongrel.”

“This is a terrible place to die in.
Where’s a good one?”

“...death seemed the most prevalent feature of the landscape.”

“There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto.”

“The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos.”

“How many is there, John?.
Did you learn to whisper in a sawmill?”

“La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.”

“Solitary, half mad, his eyes redrimmed as if locked in their cages with hot wires”

“I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.”

“Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings.”

“What joins men together, he said, is not the sharing of bread but the sharing of enemies.”

“What have you got that a man could drink with just a minimum risk of blindness and death.”

“The cat simply disappeared. There was no blood or cry, it just vanished.”

“Wikipedia: Blood Meridian”