Carson McCullers: Quotes about people

Carson McCullers was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

People

“She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

People , Music , Singing , Housing

“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been anperson. All people belong to aexcept me. Not to belong to amakes you too lonesome.”

Carson McCullers book The Member of the Wedding

Source: The Member of the Wedding

People , Time

“The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.”

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Source: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

People , Dreams

“Love is a joint experience between two persons -- but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved.”

Carson McCullers

Source: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

Wedding , Love , People , Personality

“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.”

Carson McCullers book The Member of the Wedding

Source: The Member of the Wedding

People