“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered - by life...” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life! — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -… — 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
Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Life that winter in Rome: a golden dream, and I don't mean Rafaello and the mimosa and the total freedom of life.… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“A beautiful trust. A rare and beautiful trust. It makes me cry a little. That’s all that life has to give in… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made… — 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… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“I'm a rich man, Brick, yep, I'm a mighty rich man. Y'know how much I'm worth? Guess, Brick! Guess how much I'm… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“One does not escape that easily from the seduction of an effete way of life. You cannot arbitrarily say to yourself, I… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Q.Why don't you write about nice people? Haven't you ever known any nice people in your life? A.My theory about nice people… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live? — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“human beings dream of life everlasting, that's the reason! But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.” — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
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
Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you. — 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
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
