Tennessee Williams Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• I don't want realism. I want magic!

  Tennessee Williams

  Magic, Desire, Want

  A Streetcar Named Desire sc. 9 (1947)

• Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.

  Tennessee Williams

  Vanity, Glasses, Competition

  Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

• They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

  Tennessee Williams

  Block, Desire, Fields

  A Streetcar Named Desire sc. 1 (1947)

• I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

  Tennessee Williams

  Writing, Character, Desire

  Tennessee Williams (1994). “Collected Stories”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

• All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that.

  Tennessee Williams

  Desire, Want, Loser

  Tennessee Williams (1993). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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