No Country for Old Men Quotes

“If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.”

“I don't aim to quit while I'm ahead. I just aim to quit.”

“Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen.”

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

“There is no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy.”

“If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”

“How to prevail over that which you refuse to acknowledge the existence of.”

“It's a life's work to see yourself for what you really are and even then you might be wrong.”

“Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.”

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“Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.”

“[H]e knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.”

“It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.”

“I didnt know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal.”

“All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”

“It had already occurred to him that he would probably never be safe again in his life and he wondered if that was something that you got used to. And if you did?”

“My daddy always told me to just do the best you knew how and tell the truth. He said there was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.”

“I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be simple enough for a child to understand. Otherwise it'd be too late. By the time you figured it out it would be too late.”

“I’ll tell you somethin, Sheriff. Nineteen is old enough to know that if you have got somethin that means the world to you it’s all that more likely it’ll get took away. Sixteen was, for that matter. I think about that”

“People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I don't recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.”