I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?
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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Can you wonder it is so miserable? Do you know how men should love? A tree. A rock. A cloud.
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The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person.
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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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The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
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As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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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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The world is certainty a sudden place.
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You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don’t love and don’t have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.
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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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But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?
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The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
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There 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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I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
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But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.
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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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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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People, unless they are nilly-willy or very sick, cannot be taken into the hands and be changed overnight into somthing more worth-while and profitable.
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Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things.
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Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
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To know who you are, you have to have a place to come from.
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I got to wear blinders all the time so I won’t think sideways or in the past.
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The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.
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Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It’s standing in love that matters.
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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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And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.
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In 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.
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