Quotes By Tennessee Williams

To be free is to have achieved your life.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

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.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

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.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

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.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

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.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.