Carson McCullers Quotes

A collection of quotes by Carson McCullers.

Carson McCullers was an American writer born on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia. Known for her haunting and emotional literary works, she explored themes of loneliness, love, and human isolation in the American South. Her notable novels include "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (1940) and "The Member of the Wedding" (1946). McCullers achieved critical acclaim and was considered a prominent voice in Southern Gothic literature. She faced various health struggles throughout her life and died at the age of 50 on September 29, 1967, in Nyack, New York.

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square r

The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful.

Carson McCullers

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in

It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the roller-coaster or the jukebox. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

Carson McCullers

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Ame

All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.

Carson McCullers

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation

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

Carson McCullers

While time, the endless idiot, runs screaming round the worl

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

Carson McCullers

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.

Carson McCullers