Quote

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

Carson McCullers

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Carson McCullers
Age: 50 †
Born: 1917
Born: February 19
Died: 1967
Died: September 29
Film Writer
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Georgia
Lula Carson Smith
Carson McCullers
People
Trust
Maybe
Give
Anything
Might
Giving
Thing
Longed
Made
Longing

More quotes by Carson McCullers

Image
The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
Carson McCullers
Image
Coming down was the hardest part of any climbing.
Carson McCullers
Image
How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?
Carson McCullers
Image
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.
Carson McCullers
Image
I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.
Carson McCullers
Image
Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.
Carson McCullers
Image
Next to music beer was best.
Carson McCullers
Image
There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.
Carson McCullers
Image
There is no stillness like the quiet of the first cold nights in the fall.
Carson McCullers
Image
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. I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
Carson McCullers
Image
I was like a cat always climbing the wrong tree.
Carson McCullers
Image
What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.
Carson McCullers
Image
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.
Carson McCullers
Image
There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
Carson McCullers
Image
But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.
Carson McCullers
Image
I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.
Carson McCullers
Image
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
Carson McCullers
Image
Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
Carson McCullers
Image
The world is certainty a sudden place.
Carson McCullers
Image
The memories of childhood have a strange shuttling quality, and areas of darkness ring the spaces of light. The memories of childhood are like clear candles in an acre of night, illuminating fixed scenes from surrounding darkness.
Carson McCullers