Tennessee Williams: Quotes about love

Tennessee Williams was American playwright. Explore interesting quotes on love.
Tennessee Williams: 278 quotes202 likes

“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?”

Tennessee Williams

Source: Collected Stories

“I hope to die in my sleep, when the time comes, and I hope it will be in the beautiful big brass bed in my New Orleans apartment, the bed which is associated with so much love.”

Tennessee Williams

“Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.”

Tennessee Williams

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays

“The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.”

Tennessee Williams Suddenly Last Summer

Source: Suddenly Last Summer

“The name of a person you love is more than language.”

Tennessee Williams

“Stella:
And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby..
[she smiles to herself]
Blanche:
I guess that is what is meant by being in love..”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire

Source: A Streetcar Named Desire

“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”

Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”

Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo

Source: The Rose Tattoo