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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter QUOTES

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter QUOTES

1 " In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

2 " That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

3 " There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

4 " For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

5 " What did he understand? Nothing. Where was he headed? Nowhere. What did he want? To know. What? A meaning. Why? A riddle. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

6 " The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

8 " Today we are not put up on the platforms and sold at the courthouse square. But we are forced to sell our strength, our time, our souls during almost every hour that we live. We have been freed from one kind of slavery only to be delivered into another. Is this freedom? "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

9 " It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

10 " 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 , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

11 " Next to music, beer was best. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

12 " He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

13 " In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

14 " Why? Why was it that in cases of real love the one who is left does not more often follow the beloved by suicide? Only because the living must bury the dead? Because of the measured rites that must be fulfilled after a death? Because it is as though the one who is left steps for a time upon a stage and each second swells to an unlimited amount of time and he id watched by many eyes? Because there is a function he must carry out? Or perhaps, when there is love, the widowed must stay for the resurrection of the beloved - so that the one who has gone is not really dead, but grows and is created for a second time in the soul of the living? Why? "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

15 " People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

16 " That was all he wanted for himself – to give to her. Biff's mouth hardened. He had done nothing wrong but in him he felt a strange guilt. Why? The dark guilt in all men, unreckoned and without a name. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

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

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

18 " Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

19 " Because in some men, it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons - throw it to some human being or some human idea. "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

20 " The way I need you is a loneliness I cannot bear "

― Carson McCullers , The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter