Zitate von Carson McCullers

„Der Tod bleibt immer gleich, doch jeder Mensch stirbt seinen eigenen Tod.“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Clock Without Hands

Uhr ohne Zeiger. Deutsch von Elisabeth Schnack (1899-1972), Diogenes Zürich 1963. Erster Satz des Romans.
Original englisch: "Death is always the same, but each man dies in his own way." - Clock Without Hands. Novel. Houghton Mifflin 1961. Erster Satz des Romans. books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=w05jljwvk_UC&pg=PT6

„Eine Garnison in Friedenszeiten ist ein langweiliger Ort.“

—  Carson McCullers

Spiegelbild im goldenen Auge (ursprünglich 1958: Der Soldat und die Lady). Deutsch von Richard Möring (1894-1974). Diogenes 2013, S.7 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=JuhsAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT5.
Original englisch: "An army post in peacetime is a dull place." - Reflections in a Golden Eye. Novel (1941). Der erste Satz des Romans. books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=4UK4N31nMzAC&q=peacetime

„Aber die Erinnerung kommt nie von vorne auf einen zu – sie kommt seitlich um die Ecke.“

—  Carson McCullers

A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud

„Solange ich glücklich war, war ich ein ganz guter Mensch.“

—  Carson McCullers

The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

„Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

„Next to music, beer was best.“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

„We are homesick most for the places we have never known.“

—  Carson McCullers

„We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Variante: The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.
Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

„How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

„the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

„The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire… driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

„The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else.“

—  Carson McCullers

Quelle: The Square Root of Wonderful

„The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

„She wished there was some place where she could go to hum it out loud. Some kind of music was too private to sing in a house cram fall of people. It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

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

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

„In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

„And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.“

—  Carson McCullers

Quelle: The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

„I´m a stranger in a strange land.“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

„When a person knows and can't
make the others understand, what does he do?“

—  Carson McCullers, buch Das Herz ist ein einsamer Jäger

Quelle: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter