Tennessee Williams Quotes

To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

Sex deepens love and love deepens sex, so physical intimacy transforms everything and playing with it is playing with fire.

Eleanor's hair caught fire at dawn. Her eyes were dark and shining, and his arms were sure of her. The first time he touched her hand, he'd known.

We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.

I really want to fall in love.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

The appeal of romance is love. And that's universal.

So many times you see beautiful lovemaking scenes with a lot of exposure or an awkward lovemaking scene, but I think it's very rare that you see it private.

It's very difficult to judge relationships from the outside. You never know what happens in intimate moments with two people to know why they really support and love each other.

In love there are two things - bodies and words.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.

Love and hate are two of the strongest emotions we feel in relationships.

All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

We don't fall in love with perfect people. We fall in love with complex ones.

I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have love and be loved.

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

It’s never simple.” Avery slid an arm around Hope’s waist. “It shouldn’t be. Because being with someone should matter enough to be at least a little bit complicated.

Love talks and talks. Lust is brief and to the point.

Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody.

I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.

There is lust and then there is love. They are related, but still very different things. To indulge in one requires little but honeyed speech and a change of clothes; to obtain the other, by contrast, a man must give up his rib. In return, his woman will undo the sin of Eve, and bring him back into Paradise.