Carson McCullers Quotes

I've never felt at home anywhere.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment.

I've always been an outsider. Even in London. If I returned to Scotland, I'd feel a complete foreigner.

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.

You get people who come to London, sever links with where they come from, and then when they need people, there's nobody there. To feel like you can't go back home would be a horribly sad place to be, as is mistaking fame for genuine love and affection.

Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.

Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is some part of oneself remains on another continent.

I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air.

With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

In a sense, I feel a lot more an outsider in Los Angeles than I did in Newfoundland.

Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television.

I have to live within my memories, within my private universe, and continually return to China, the land where my thoughts are locked. This is a very painful kind of existence, this feeling of nowhereness.

Exile is more than a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room.

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

I don't belong on this earth. I always feel out of place - like a visitor.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.

I've always been an outsider; a displaced person.

The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

I had never had a deep sense of belonging anywhere. I always felt I was an outsider.