Quotes By Tennessee Williams
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Tennessee Williams
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
Tennessee Williams
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Tennessee Williams
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.
Tennessee Williams
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
Tennessee Williams
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Tennessee Williams
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
Tennessee Williams
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
Tennessee Williams
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Tennessee Williams
I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee Williams
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
Tennessee Williams
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams