Carson McCullers Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• I'm not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these beautiful feelings and loose little pleasures inside me. And this woman was something like an assembly line for my soul. I run these little pieces of myself through her and I come out complete. Now do you follow me?

  Carson McCullers

  Beautiful, Running, Soul

  Carson McCullers (1964). “The ballad of the sad café”

• 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.

  Carson McCullers

  Feelings, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Cheated

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.

  Carson McCullers

  Writing, Feelings, Different

• This was her, Mick Kelly, walking in the daytime and by herself at night. In the hot sun and in the dark with all the plans and feelings. This music was her—the real plain her...This music did not take a long time or a short time. It did not have anything to do with time going by at all. She sat with her arms around her legs, biting her salty knee very hard. The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen... Now that it was over there was only her heart beating like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

  Carson McCullers

  Hurt, Real, Heart

• 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.

  Carson McCullers

  Real, Thinking, Feelings

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.

  Carson McCullers

  Taken, Soul, Feelings

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Ballad of the Sad Cafe”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

  Carson McCullers

  Cutting, Doctors, Feelings

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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