Carson McCullers Quotes

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love.

Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.

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.

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.