black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Bad Gratitude Luck Perspective Save Worst Yourself
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
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
Ever step you take is forever.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Deep Forever Important One Liner Step Worth
Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I’d always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Abandonment Betrayal Courage Discover Easy Morning Seek
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Dreams Inspirational Life Motivational Wait Wasted Time 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
Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Man Vulnerable World
Words pale and lose their savor while pain is always new.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Lose Pain Save Word
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
Nobody wants to be here and nobody wants to leave.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Deep Escape Leaving Stay
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

God Man Strange War
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Deep Empty God Goodness Heart Life Reality Stand Start Truth Young
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
Do you know what happens with people who cannot govern themselves? That’s right. Others come in to govern for them.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Control Government People Power Right Rule Yourself

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that’s just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Cormac McCarthy Quotes