All Carson McCullers Quotes
- We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for… Familiar
- There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the… All
- For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and… Almost Never
- People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard… Anything Different
- Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human… Ferments
- Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being… All
- In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very… Alone
- There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Beloved
- She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful.… Beautiful
- There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection.… All
- It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see. Bang
- I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what… Begin
- We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And… Addition
- I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror. Go