Quotations from, The Road.

So far in reading, The Road, I've definitely come across some memorable quotes. Either in the fathers head or something he says to the boy. Or maybe through a flashback. One of them include, "The world shrinking down about a raw core of parsible entities. The names of things slowly following those things into oblivion. Colors. The names of birds. Things to eat. Finally the names of things one believed to be true. More fragile than he would have thought. How much was gone already? The sacred idiom shorn of its referents and so of its reality." ( page 75 ) is talking about how the post apocalyptic world has been reduced to it's basic elements and for it to be complex, it would be a luxury. The more sophisticated aspects of human civilization have been erased completely and what once was is slowly being forgotten. Also, truths and customs involving human life have been completely lost. The concepts of that day that once were, now have no human meaning to them.

Another quote I'd like to discuss would be, 

"He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like groundfoxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it." ( page 110 ) This desolate passage is reveling the indifference of the universe to the man. A condition that he takes to be 'the absolute truth of the world'. The earth still continues to revolve 'cold' and 'relentless'.  It is saying that the survivors only exist for the moment somehow, the hunted animals could possibly represent the man and the boy. Living in spite of the universe's disinterest, witnessing this wasteland with their fleeting lives.