239 Quotes by Carson McCullers

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the world.

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.

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.

It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

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.