522 Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.

There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of saying a thing becomes a part of what is said, every work of art is unique and requires fresh attention.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey's mind. Bailey was the son she liver with, her only boy.