Quotes by Carson McCullers

“The thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.”

“I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.”

“Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.”

“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.”

“The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear”

“I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.”

“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...”

“There are times when a man's greatest need is to have someone to love, some focal point for his diffused emotions. Also there are times when the irritations, disappointments, and fears of life, res...”

“There was another thing bigger than the tiredness and this was the strong crew purpose.”

“That was all he wanted for himself to give to her. Biff's mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name.”

“Doctor Copeland belt old evil anger in him. The words rose inchoately to his throat and he could not speak them. They would listen to the old man. Yet to word the reason they will not attend.”

“A person can't pick up they children and just squeeze them to which-a-way they wants them to be.”

“It was as though his son cheated him by depriving him of his beloved presence, the sweet and treacherous thief had plundered his heart. If Johnny had died in any other way, cancer or leukaemia he c...”

“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...”

“You mean,' Captain Penderton said, 'that any fulfilment obtained at the expense of normalcy is wrong, and should not be allowed to bring happiness. In short, it is better, because it is morally hon...”

“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.”

“We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great,...”

“Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness.”

“Wonderful music like this was the worst hurt there could be. The whole world was the symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.”

“I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and w...”