Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. 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 on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote reflects the overwhelming and illuminating experience of discovering love as a young person, while also hinting at the complexities and potential disappointments that can come with it.
In this quote, Tennessee Williams expresses the profound impact of first love experienced in youth. He describes it as a sudden revelation that casts light on feelings and emotions that were previously obscured, capturing both the beauty and intensity of that experience. However, he also acknowledges the potential for disillusionment, suggesting that such intense feelings can lead to misjudgments or unrealistic expectations.
Themes
LoveDiscoveryYouthDisillusionmentEmotion
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about the challenges of young love, this quote can illustrate the overwhelming feelings that accompany first experiences of love.
More from Tennessee Williams
All quotes →Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
Similar quotes
I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
Angelina JolieRead
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
Khalil GibranRead
It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)
Sylvia PlathRead
The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work in themselves whenever they feel joy, love and peace. Strife, on the other hand, is the force responsible for the dissolution of the one back into its many, the four elements of which it was composed.
EmpedoclesRead
Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
Franz KafkaRead
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William Makepeace ThackerayRead