Carson McCullers Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

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

  Carson McCullers

  People, Giving, Might

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Wherever you look there’s meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

  Carson McCullers

  Stupid, Wine, Mean

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Owing to the fact he was a mute they were able to give him all the qualities they wanted him to have.

  Carson McCullers

  Giving, Quality, Owing

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.232, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Because in some men it is in them to give up everything personal at some time, before it ferments and poisons--throw it to some human being or some human idea. They have to.

  Carson McCullers

  Giving Up, Men, Ideas

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

  Carson McCullers

  Hero, Men, Giving

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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