Colum McCann Short Quotes

25 Sourced Quotes

View all Colum McCann Quotes
At a certain stage every single thing can be a sign.

Colum McCann
Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get.

Colum McCann
One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.

Colum McCann
The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.

Colum McCann
What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

Colum McCann
The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

Colum McCann
If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures.

Colum McCann
The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last.

Colum McCann
Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell.

Colum McCann
The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly.

Colum McCann
Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty.

Colum McCann
I sit there thinking about how much courage it takes to live an ordinary life.

Colum McCann
The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

Colum McCann
Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.

Colum McCann
How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

Colum McCann
He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

Colum McCann
Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

Colum McCann
You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven...

Colum McCann
Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it's still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

Colum McCann
It was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.

Colum McCann
So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.

Colum McCann
This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.

Colum McCann
Things happen. We had not wanted them to happen. They had arisen out of the ashes of chance.

Colum McCann
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

Colum McCann
It struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from.

Colum McCann
The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.

Colum McCann
Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me.

Colum McCann
There's a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we've left it.

Colum McCann
The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.

Colum McCann
He wondered if that was what the moment of death was about, the noise of the world and then ease away from it.

Colum McCann