239 Quotes by Carson McCullers

You mind Ralph,” she called back to Bubber. “Mind the gnats don’t sit on his eyelids.

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did no know.

There’s nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

Man does not make these natural resources – man only develops them, only uses them for work... How can a man own ground and space and sunlight and rain for crops?

Henry Johnson was the third husband, the one who had gone crazy on Berenice. He was all right for three.

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, true principle – the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars – and hundreds of thousands of people who don’t get to eat.

I want – I want – I want – was all that she could think about – but just what this real want was she did not know.

It looks to me like everything has just walked off and left me.

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.