The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
CARSON MCCULLERSLove of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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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 plans and feelings.
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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Next to music beer was best.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
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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 every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
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I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.
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