Carson McCullers Quotes

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.

... unspeakably lonely.

It's lonely up here.

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always claim his heart. He could never quite get a grip on what it was. It just seemed that whatever lay waiting "out there" was all too vast, too overwhelming for him to possibly ever make a dent in.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

We can be lonely together

It was funny, she thought, but her smile turned wistful because she had nobody to tell.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

Loneliness comes with life.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.

I'm perpetually lonely.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

It will be a lonelier life than I have ever known before.