All we can do is go around telling the truth.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe xenophobic individual can only reject and destroy, as the xenophobic nation inevitably makes war.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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For fear is a primary source of evil. And when the question “Who am I?” recurs and is unanswered, then fear and frustration project a negative attitude.
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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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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I´m a stranger in a strange land.
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Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage.
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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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 whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen… Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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They are the we of me.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.
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