Carson McCullers Is Quotations

How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?

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.

Love is the bridge that leads from the I sense to the We, and there is a paradox about personal love. Love of another individual opens a new relation between the personality and the world. The lover responds in a new way to nature and may even write poetry. Love is affirmation; it motivates the yes responses and the sense of wider communication. Love casts out fear, and in the security of this togetherness we find contentment, courage. We no longer fear the age-old haunting questions: "Who am I?" "Why am I?" "Where am I going?" - and having cast out fear, we can be honest and charitable.

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.

The value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.