239 Quotes by Carson McCullers

There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries.

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.

I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green?

Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

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

the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.

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

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.

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.