The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
CARSON MCCULLERSI think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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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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I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?
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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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was left over from work and augmented the little rag end of her personal life.
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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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It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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A 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.
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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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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.
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The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
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The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
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The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light.
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It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
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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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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
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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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And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start?
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The music left only this bad hurt in her, and a blankness. She could not remember any of the symphony, not even the last few notes. She tried to remember, but no sound at all came to her. Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.
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Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
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