Quotes By Tennessee Williams

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?

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.

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