I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany´s.
Truman CapoteRead
You can’t give your heart to a wild thing.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that one cannot fully love or trust someone who is unpredictable or unrestrained.
Truman Capote's quote highlights the inherent difficulties in giving one's heart to someone who embodies wildness or lacks stability. This could refer to individuals who are untamed, emotionally volatile, or live life without boundaries, indicating that true love requires a foundation of trust and predictability that may not be present in a 'wild thing'.
Themes
LoveTrustRelationshipsEmotionsWildness
In practice
Example use cases
During a speech about the complexities of love and relationships.
More from Truman Capote
All quotes →All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like saying a declaration of love is an act of decadence. Any work of art, provide it springs from a sincere motivation to further understanding between people, is an act of faith and therefore is an act of love.
Truman CapoteRead
No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.
Truman CapoteRead
Hot weather opens the skull of a city, exposing its white brain, and its heart of nerves, which sizzle like the wires inside a lightbulb. And there exudes a sour extra-human smell that makes the very stone seem flesh-alive, webbed and pulsing.
Truman CapoteRead
I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together.
Truman CapoteRead
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
Truman CapoteRead
Similar quotes
When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product.
Dalai LamaRead
Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.
Mark TwainRead
All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.
Raymond CarverRead
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love, tender love.
VoltaireRead
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.
StendhalRead
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar WildeRead