black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.

Cormac McCarthy

You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain’t nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It’s just a aggravation.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Fix Let Go Problem Repair Yourself
And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Beyond Death Different Man Sleep Sun Walk World
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
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Burn Fire Flame Hide Inspirational
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Chance Fate Man Occupation Work
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Abandonment Decision Life Man Order
Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Drive Hard Life Suicide Worth Yourself
When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Death Yourself
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Lose Pain Save Word
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Human Misery Worst
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.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Return Time Try Yourself
The things I believed in dont exist any more. It’s foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Believe Civilization Existence Fools Myself Pretend See
The frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night. The last instance of a thing takes the class with it. Turns out the light and is gone. Look around you. Ever is a long time. But the boy knew what he knew. That ever is no time at all.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Boy Fragile Issues Light Night Old Philosophy Reveal Time Trouble
One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Age Death Old Sadness Yourself
You have to carry the fire.” I don’t know how to.” Yes, you do.” Is the fire real? The fire?” Yes it is.” Where is it? I don’t know where it is.” Yes you do. It’s inside you. It always was there. I can see it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Carry Fire Inspirational Motivational Reality See Yourself
You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Bad Gratitude Luck Perspective Save Worst Yourself

When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Cormac McCarthy Quotes