But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.
CARSON MCCULLERSThe lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
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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Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons–throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire!
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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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Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.
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Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss.
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The writer must hew the phantom rock.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
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To 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!
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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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The writer is by nature a dreamer – a conscious dreamer.
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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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We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
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But you haven’t never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied.
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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.
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