Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Quotes

• The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Heart, Fire

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  We are homesick most for the places we have never known.

  Carson McCullers

  Jukebox, Homesick, Nostalgia

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Heart, Hunters

  Title of book (1940)

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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

  People, Giving, Might

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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  We are torn between 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

  Travel, Jukebox, Road Trip

  Carson McCullers (2017). “Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings”, p.408, Library of America

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

  Carson McCullers

  Soul, Left Behind, Behinds

  Carson McCullers (2004). “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, p.333, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Next to music beer was best.

  Carson McCullers

  Funny, Music, Drinking

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.353, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

  Carson McCullers

  Freedom, Men, Trying

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.302, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Mean, Love Is, Two

  "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1943)

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• All we can do is go around telling the truth.

  Carson McCullers

  Telling The Truth, Can Do

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

  William Sharp

  Lonely, Loneliness, Heart

  "The Lonely Hunter" l. 24 (1896) See McCullers 1

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• The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Heart, Hunters

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• For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and valor. Of the endless fluid passage of the humanity through endless time. And of those who labor and of those who - one word- love. His soul expanded. But for a moment only. For in him, he felt a warning, a shaft of terror.

  Carson McCullers

  Love, Struggle, Endless Time

  Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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• 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, Cheated

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

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

  Carson McCullers

  Without You, Meant To Be Alone, Meant To Be

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.217, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Country, Home, Simple

  Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

  Carson McCullers

  Jesus, Jail, Would Be

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.158, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What are the sources of an illumination? To me, they come after hours of searching and keeping my soul ready. Yet they come in a flash, as a religious phenomenon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter had such an illumination, beginning my long search for the truth of the story and flashing light into the long two years ahead.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Religious, Heart

  Carson McCullers, Carlos L. Dews (2001). “Illumination and night glare: the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers”, Univ of Wisconsin Pr

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• I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart

  Madonna Ciccone

  Lonely, War, Book

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