The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.
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!
More Carson McCullers Quotes
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How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
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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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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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A writer soon discovers he has no single identity but lives the lives of all the people he creates and his weathers are independent of the actual day around him.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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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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.
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justice itself is a chimera, a delusion. Justice is not a flat yardstick, applied in equal measure to an equal situation.
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I meditated on love and reasoned it out. I realized what is wrong with us. Men fall in love for the first time. And what do they fall in love with? …They fall in love with a woman. They start at the wrong end of love. They begin at the climax.
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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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You don’t know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.
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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.
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We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange.
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I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul.
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