Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Quotes:

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

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

topic: Feelings, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Cheated

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

topic: Lonely, Heart, Fire, Lonely Heart, Neon Lights

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

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

topic: Travel, Homesick, Strange, Janus, Familiar Places

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.

- Carson McCullers

topic: Lonely, Heart, Hunters, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

- Carson McCullers

topic: People, Giving, Might, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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

- Carson McCullers

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

topic: Soul, Left Behind, Behinds, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Next to music beer was best.

- Carson McCullers

topic: Music, Beer, Next, Great Drinking, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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

- Carson McCullers

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

topic: Freedom, Men, Trying, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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

source: "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" (1943)

topic: Mean, Love Is, Two, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

- Carson McCullers

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

topic: Telling The Truth, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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

- William Sharp

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

topic: Lonely, Loneliness, Heart, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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

- Carson McCullers

topic: Lonely, Heart, Hunters, Southerner, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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

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

topic: Love, Struggle, Endless Time, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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

- Carson McCullers

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

topic: Without You, Meant To Be Alone, Meant To Be, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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

topic: Country, Home, Simple, Janus, Homesickness

But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned every word He spoke for their own vile ends. Jesus would be framed and in jail if he was living today.

- Carson McCullers

topic: Jesus, Years, Two, Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

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

topic: Lonely, Religious, Heart, After Hours, Flashing Lights

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

topic: Lonely, War, Book, Mocking Bird, Whom The Bell Tolls