Carson McCullers

"The world is a more beautiful place than I have ever suspected."

"We are all of us lonely."

"There is no doubt that in excess, almost anything is poisonous."

"A person deprived of aloneness is in prison without knowing it."

"Love is a joint experience between two persons but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved."

"The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experience of all mankind."

"Artificial people are nothing new in the world."

"Even if the heart breaks, it will heal again the same way a broken bone mends."

"The value and merit of a life is not measured by its length, but by its depth."

"Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self."

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

"There is a time for laughing and a time for not laughing, and this is not one of them."

"Courage is something like dancing."

"The work of art is the object, and the good of the object is to be alive."

"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."

"I have loved and I have been loved, and thus I have lived."

"To be nervous and timid is to be alive."

"In order to understand anything, one must love it."

"There is something about the human spirit that is indestructible."

"The greatest thing in the world is love."

"Listen! With ears of tolerance! Hear things from the perspective of others."

"Passion is the quick flush under the skin, when the black eyes kindle, and the meanest heart tumbles in the moment."

"The darkness of the world always comes as a shock."

"Time is a mystery, not a highway."

"We are all strangers to each other in the end."

"The spiritual exploration is the most important."

"Music is a way of expressing feeling, of saying things that cannot be said with words."

"Beauty requires consciousness; it cannot exist where there is no one to perceive it."

"The sad thing is that it is most often when we are happy that we forget to be grateful."

"Real love sometimes does not follow any rules."