Everybody Is Nothing Until You Love Them

Everybody Is Nothing Until You Love Them

And 13 other pieces of love riddled truth spoken by Tennessee Williams.

Bianca SparacinoOctober 31, 2016

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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Time is the longest distance between two places.

— Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

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I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth. And it that's sinful, then let me be damned for it!

— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

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Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

— Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof

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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 (New Directions Paperbook)

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

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Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)

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Everybody is nothing until you love them.

— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams

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