We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
CARSON MCCULLERSA seed grows in writing as in nature. The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just – when all along we knew it wasn’t.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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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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There is so much truth in children and so little self-consciousness. It always strikes me that they are so capable of losing and finding themselves and also losing and finding those things they feel close to.
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It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart – the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong.
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
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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 loss.
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A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.
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