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Life Quotes by Tennessee Williams
- Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
- I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
- I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair,…
- All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.
- The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.
- Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone,…
- Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.
- All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself…
- We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
- Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
- I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out…
- A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
- Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
- Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
- To be free is to have achieved your life.
- Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
- Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
- You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
- Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
- The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or…
- Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the…
- It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of…
- 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.
- And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt…
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- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle