The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
CARSON MCCULLERSBut no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
CARSON MCCULLERSMaybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
CARSON MCCULLERSI think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
CARSON MCCULLERSI´m a stranger in a strange land.
CARSON MCCULLERSI want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.
CARSON MCCULLERSDon’t you loathe it when doctors use the word ‘we’ when it applies only and solely to yourself?
CARSON MCCULLERSWhen a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
CARSON MCCULLERSTo find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!
CARSON MCCULLERSI run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
CARSON MCCULLERSIn his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
CARSON MCCULLERSThe human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.
CARSON MCCULLERSJesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
CARSON MCCULLERSWe 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.
CARSON MCCULLERSThere 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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