black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

Cormac McCarthy

Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Deep Existence Hide Knowledge Man
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
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
I’ve seen the meanness of humans till I don’t know why God ain’t put out the sun and gone away.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

God Human Patience Rude See Sun
The closest bonds we will ever know are bonds of grief. The deepest community one of sorrow.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Bond Community Deep Grief Oneself Sorrow
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
You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don’t count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Count Life Morning Thinking Wake Up Yourself
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Ourselves Past Power Reality Scars Strange
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 trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Himself Lying Remember Talk Trouble
If only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Dreams Heart Myself One Liner Stone
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
And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Darkness Dreams Fire Myself Wake Up
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
Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I’d made before it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Choice Decision Life Myself
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Man Vulnerable World

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Cormac McCarthy Quotes