Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe bewildered soul can answer only: “Since I do not understand ‘Who I am,’ I only know what I am not.” The corollary of this emotional incertitude is snobbism, intolerance and racial hate.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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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 being or some human idea. They have to.
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His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
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The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.
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Don’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
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Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.
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