Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I believe the way to write a good play is to convince yourself it is easy to do--then go ahead and do… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Most people's lives—what are they but trails of debris, each day more debris, more debris, long, long trails of debris with nothing… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Well, you better look out. They got a new bureau in the guvamint files. It’s called U.W. Stands for Useless Wimmen. Tha’s secret plans… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
You take it for granted that I am in something that I want to get out of. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I know so well what becomes of unmarried women who aren't prepared to occupy a position. I've seen such pitiful cases in the South… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
