Tennessee Williams Quotes

When two people were in love you had to leave them to it. Especially when you weren't in love and wished that you were. That could embarrass. That could hurt.

The big difference between people is not between the rich and the poor, the good and the evil. The biggest of all differences between people is between those who have had pleasure in love and those who haven't.

The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.

It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in what we inspire.

Getting love is a very small experience. It is the experience of beggar.

A loveless world is a dead world.

You know, sometimes you fall in love and you get treated badly, sometimes you get treated well.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

I maybe had a first love and had my heart broken, but reflecting on it, I don't think that was love. I think as I'm getting older and having more in-depth relationships, maybe I'll experience it. At the moment, I don't know, exactly, if I've been in love.

It's difficult to keep your eyes moist free and your head clear when the girl you really really liked chooses to go on a date with your best friend.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

It's not unusual to be loved by anyone, it's not unusual to have fun with anyone. But when I see you hanging about with anyone, it's not unusual to see me cry. I wanna' die.

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content.

Stalkers lips curled into a sneer. "You won't make a move without him, huh? That's embarrassing." "No," I said softly. "It just hurts because you wish it was you.

There are a lot of people who go their whole lives without truly knowing what love is, or ever experiencing that.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink.

There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.

Jealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.

Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.

There's no misery in not being loved, only in not loving.