All Carson McCullers Quotes
- But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music. All
- while time, the endless idiot, runs screaming around the world Endless
- It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the… Americans
- How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind? Behind
- This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the… All
- All we can do is go around telling the truth. All
- But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned… Church
- Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and… Acceptance
- I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she… All
- She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in… Cram
- The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else. Care
- We are homesick most for the places we have never known. Homesick
- We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can… Answer
- After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and… Belong
- The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage.… Character
- But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a… Afterward
- In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the good of they… Act
- The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger… Anothers
- A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp. Beautiful
- Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a… Doe