Carson McCullers Quotes

married was the loneliest I got - being without the one you're with.

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

I cry a lot because I miss people.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

I was separated from my wife at the time. A lot of people think I wrote it about prison.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

Everyone has to die. I'm not particularly scared about it. What really frightens me is that if I go before my wife, I will leave her alone, and vice versa. The ideal would be to die together.

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family.

Being away from the game took a toll on my heart.

The game isn't the same when we're apart.

Sometimes when you have lost, you don't want to speak to anybody.

My private life's quite sad.

But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart.

Summer is the worst time of all to be alone. The earth is warm and lovely, free to go about in; and always somewhere in the distance there is a place where two people might be happy if only they were together. It is in the spring that one dreams of such places; one thinks of the summer which is coming, and the heart dreams of its friend.

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness.

I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.