Carson McCullers Quotes

He longed to be lost but he couldn't bear not to be found.

I want - I want - I want - was all that she could think about - but just what this real want was she did not know.

I think that I'm throwing but I'm thrown

Romeo save me, I've been feeling so alone. I keep waiting for you, but you never come. Is this in my head? I don't know what to think.

The front windows as are the watchmen of grief - I've been looking beyond expectation - Beyond myself - and I do not know as I love you - Which one of us is missing.

I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then

During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living?

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

I’m living in separate universes, and I have no idea where I actually belong.

I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

Even though I'm seventeen, I guess I still thought this would always be true - that there would always be that lost-and-found, and not the lost-and-still-lost that I am now trapped inside.

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

I tend toward characters who are more lost than found.

When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

I am not a man. I am not a human being inside. I am not that. I don't know what I am, but I am not that.

I've had times in my life when I really haven't been able to figure myself out.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

There are times I can't even figure myself out.

Sometimes I feel like a man; sometimes I feel like a child.