Truman Capote Quotes

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

I think that some of the most amazing places to be or to grow up are the places right outside of great cities, because you're sort of constantly in this suspended state of, like, looking inside the window, wanting to be in the party. I think it breeds good feelings.

I think it's impossible not to see something you wanted happen to someone else and maybe wish it for yourself.

Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.

They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.

We can better see what we don't have. The other man's grass is always greener and now we can actually go and visit his grass much more and feel the absence of green in our own lives.

The brooks flow to their lover, the sea, and the flowers smile at the object of their passion, the light. The mist rolls down to its beloved, the valley. And I? In me is what brooks do not know, what flowers do not hear, what the mist does not apprehend. You see me alone in my love, solitary in my yearning.

I'd fly. I sit and watch the birds go by and say, I wish I could do that.

Longing, felt fully, carries us to belonging.

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

"That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom & Sons, and she follows my gaze to Puck. "Neither of you are a housewife." I don't look away from Puck. "I think you assume too much, Dory Maud." "You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for the rest of us to see."

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

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

The eyes envy the mind.

This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.

When everyone covets something, they are easily annoyed by it.

You are so close, and I can’t reach you.

For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.

Where the road sloped upward beyond the trees, I sat and looked toward the building where Naoko lived. It was easy to tell which room was hers. All I had to do was find the one window toward the back where a faint light trembled. I focused on that point of light for a long, long time. It made me think of something like the final throb of a soul's dying embers. I wanted to cup my hands over what was left and keep it alive. I went on watching the way Jay Gatsby watched that tiny light on the opposite shore night after night.

The streetlight outside my house shines on tonight and I'm watching it like it could give me a vision. James ain't talked ever and he looks at that streetlight like it was a word and maybe like it was a verb. James wanted to streetlight me and make me bright and beautiful so all the moths and bats would circle me like I was the center of the world an held secrets.

What I mean is, like you to have everything you want. Wished it was me, that's all

I really do wish people could understand me some day.