Carson McCullers Quotes

The down side these days is thinking that, “I can do this all on my own”. Yes, you can do this on your own but you’ll be a much happier human being if you do it with other human beings.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

There is always the danger that increased personal independence will decrease the social capacity of an individual. In making him more self-reliant, it may make him more self-sufficient.... It often makes an individual so insensitive in his relations to others as to develop an illusion of being really able to stand and act alone -- an unnamed form of insanity which is responsible for a large part of the remedial suffering of the world

I don't need friends.

When I was in Paris I was at a big club in a major city, but nobody really cared about each other. It didn't have that family feeling, I didn't see any team spirit.

Isolation must precede true society.

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

People are longing to rediscover true community. We have had enough of loneliness, independence and competition.

One man is not enough.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

Success is nothing if you don't have the right people to share it with; you're just gonna end up lonely.

I can't imagine a society with absolutely no solidarity. For me, it's a nightmare. And I don't want to live in a place like that.

I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.