There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
CARSON MCCULLERSYou don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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The 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.
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I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
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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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We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: “Who am I?” “Why am I?” “Where am I going?” – and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.
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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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Writing, for me, is a search for God.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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