black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Cormac McCarthy

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Behavior Forget Human Mindset Remember Yourself
The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and the reality, even where we will not.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Dreams Harsh Reality Rude Selection World
If there’s one thing on this planet you don’t look like it’s a bunch of good luck walkin around.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Earth Goodness Luck Walk
If you think about some of the things that are being talked about by thoughtful, intelligent scientists, you realize that in 100 years the human race won’t even be recognizable.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Human Intelligence Race Recognition Talk Thinking Yourself
They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

End Journey Silence Talk Togetherness Travel
There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road there to.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Joy Road Vehicle
The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn’t know that. I thought they were indestructible. They weren’t.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Destruction Fragile Love Myself Thinking
It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Believe Blood Fools Greedy History Love Repeat Save True
We think we are the victims of time. In reality, the way of the world isn’t fixed anywhere. How could that be possible? We are our own journey. And therefore we are time as well. We are the same. Fugitive. Inscrutable. Ruthless.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Journey Possible Reality Thinking Time Victim Way World
I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Best Gratitude Kind Luck Myself Need Thankful Yourself
There is for a man two things in life that are very important, head and shoulders above everything else. Find work you like, and find someone to live with you like. Very few people get both.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Important Life Live Luck Man People Work
Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Brief Life Live Short Slave Yourself
People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn’t believe in that. Tomorrow wasn’t getting ready for them. It didn’t even know they were there.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Future People Preparation Ready Time
He’d half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Eyes Forever Heart Space Talk World
If only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Dreams Heart Myself One Liner Stone
Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Believe Myself

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Cormac McCarthy Quotes