Ifs Quotes by Tennessee Williams

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

— Tennessee Williams

If you can't be yourself, what's the point of being anyone else?

— Tennessee Williams

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.

— Tennessee Williams

All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is…

— Tennessee Williams

The human heart would never pass the drunk test… If you took the human heart out of the human body and put…

— Tennessee Williams

We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if…

— Tennessee Williams

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many…

— Tennessee Williams

I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything,…

— Tennessee Williams

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people and with violent material. I don't regret having…

— Tennessee Williams

What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to…

— Tennessee Williams

The panic disappeared under those soothing old fingers and the breathing slowed down and stopped hurting the chest as if a fox…

— Tennessee Williams

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed…

— Tennessee Williams