Tennessee Williams Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Monsters don't die early; they hang on long. Awfully long. Their vanity's infinite, almost as infinite as their disgust with themselves.
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.
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent
In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.
And in the spring, it's touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before!
Since that day, when people have spoken to me of "genius", I have felt the inside pocket to make sure my wallet's still there.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
There are no "good" or "bad" people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
I've been accused of having a death wish but I think it's life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever.
This play is dedicated to the memory of Clarence Darrow, The Great Defender, whose mental frontiers were the four corners of the sky.
I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.
Human beings dream of life everlasting, that's the reason! But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!
Keep awake, alive, new. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive.
I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together
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!
It's hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don't want to write.
It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.
Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Every time you come in yelling that God damn "Rise and Shine!" "Rise and Shine!" I say to myself, "How lucky dead people are!
Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light ...
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?
Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.
No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is
all
over ...
all
over ...
Val: Why do you go out there?
Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice.
Val: What advice do they give?
Sandra: Just one word- live!
Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice.
Val: What advice do they give?
Sandra: Just one word- live!
It's almost impossible for anybody to believe that they're not loved by someone they believe they love. But honey, I love nobody.