“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
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. — 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
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
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
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
“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the… — 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
I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life. — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was… — 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
