black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Carson McCullers

Maybe 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 MCCULLERS

Fel Different Maybe Thing Understanding Way Word Write
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
CARSON MCCULLERS

Behind Dead Left Soul Truly
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Chair Diddling Doctor Dreadful God Hand Look Stretch Table Thing Undress Wash Window
Love 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.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Another Even Individual Love Nature Open Personality Poetry Relation Respond Way Write
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Always Essential Keen Less Loneliness Made People Create
When a person knows and can’t make the others understand, what does he do?
CARSON MCCULLERS

Do Does Know Make Other Person Understand
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Bad Blankness Could Even Few Her Hut Last Must Left Note Remember She Symphony
All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.
CARSON MCCULLERS

All Country Loneliest Lonely Men Seem Sometimes
I must go home periodically to renew my sense of horror.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Home Honor Periodically Renew Sense
To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Atre Come From Know Place Who You
After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.
CARSON MCCULLERS

After Belong Come Establishment Found Identity Imperative Larger Lose never Sense Separateness Something
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.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Cheat Like Nobody Out Same Feel She Take
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Bourbon Drink First Master Morning Musical Nothing Pour Sound Sunday
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Amidst Fragile Life Own Seem Support Wreckage Year
I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Always Create Essential Keen Less Live Loneliness Made People
She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
CARSON MCCULLERS

Cram Fall Go House Kind Loud Music Out People Place Private Sing Some Too Wish

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Carson McCullers Quotes