Carson McCullers Quotes


"The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect."
- Carson McCullers
(Related: Design, Colors, Intellect, Mind, Senses)

"The theme is the theme of humiliation, which is the square root of sin, as opposed to the freedom from humiliation, and love, which is the square root of wonderful."
- Carson McCullers
(Related: Love, Freedom, Sin)

"There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book."
- Carson McCullers
(Related: Existence, Nothing, Old, Song)