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

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

Lose Pain Save Word
There is no God and we are his prophets.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Atheist God One Liner Puppet Toy
Remember her hair in the morning before it was pinned, black, rampant, savage with loveliness. As if she slept in perpetual storm.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Hairs Lonely Morning Remember Savage Sleep Storm
The wind sounded of Mother Earth’s forsaken and abandoned cries.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Abandonment Cry Earth Mom Nature Sound Wind
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
Men of God and men of war have strange affinities.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

God Man Strange War
Ever step you take is forever.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Deep Forever Important One Liner Step Worth
I think by the time you’re grown you’re as happy as you’re goin to be. You’ll have good times and bad times, but in the end you’ll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I’ve knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Bad Goodness Growth Happiness People Thinking Time Yourself
If only my heart were stone.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Dreams Heart Myself One Liner Stone
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 road has its own reasons and no two travelers will have the same understanding of those reasons. If indeed they come to an understanding of them at all.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Reason Road Travel Understand
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
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Ourselves Past Power Reality Scars Strange
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
Best way to live in California is to be from somewheres else.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Best Identity Live Way
If trouble comes when you least expect it then maybe the thing to do is to always expect it.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Expectation Thinking Trouble
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
When you die it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Death Yourself
She said that these were things all women knew yet seldom spoke of. Lastly she said that if women were drawn to rash men it was only that in their secret hearts they knew that a man who would not kill for them was of no use at all.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Heart Kill Man Secret Talk Woman
By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Day Earth Grief Mom Sun
You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Behavior Forget Human Mindset Remember Yourself
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
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
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
How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Abandonment Decision Life Man Order
The trouble with a liar is he can’t remember what he said.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Himself Lying Remember Talk Trouble
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Chance Fate Man Occupation Work

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