Quote

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

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
Trying
Men
Fatal
Stand
Alone
Freedom
Thing

More quotes by Carson McCullers

Image
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.
Carson McCullers
Image
The seed of the idea is developed by both labor and the unconscious, and the struggle that goes on between them.
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
Image
Comparing the Brooklyn that I know with Manhattan is like comparing a comfortable and complacent duenna to her more brilliant and neurotic sister.
Carson McCullers
Image
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Carson McCullers
Image
She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.
Carson McCullers
Image
Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.
Carson McCullers
Image
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
Carson McCullers
Image
For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.
Carson McCullers
Image
The world is certainty a sudden place.
Carson McCullers
Image
There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.
Carson McCullers
Image
But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.
Carson McCullers
Image
Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
Carson McCullers
Image
Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.
Carson McCullers
Image
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? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
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
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! 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!
Carson McCullers
Image
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.
Carson McCullers
Image
I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
Carson McCullers
Image
I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?
Carson McCullers