Life Quotes by Tennessee Williams

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

— Tennessee Williams

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

— Tennessee Williams

All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.

— Tennessee Williams

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

— Tennessee Williams

“I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered - by life...”

— Tennessee Williams

“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else.”

— Tennessee Williams

To be free is to have achieved your life.

— Tennessee Williams

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Tennessee Williams

“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

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

— Tennessee Williams

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

— Tennessee Williams

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

— Tennessee Williams

I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.

— Tennessee Williams

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -…

— Tennessee Williams

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

— Tennessee Williams

Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the…

— Tennessee Williams

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate…

— Tennessee Williams

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

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of…

— Tennessee Williams

“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

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

— Tennessee Williams

And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was…

— Tennessee Williams

“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

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

William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time…

— Tennessee Williams

“But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once…

— Tennessee Williams

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

“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

“Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made…

— Tennessee Williams

“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

“One does not escape that easily from the seduction of an effete way of life. You cannot arbitrarily say to yourself, I…

— Tennessee Williams

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

— Tennessee Williams

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

— Tennessee Williams

I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire…

— Tennessee Williams

I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.

— Tennessee Williams

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of…

— Tennessee Williams

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

— Tennessee Williams

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

— 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