Quote by Tennessee Williams Download Open image ““I'm not really so hard & cynical after all - in fact I'm still dangerously soft.”” — Tennessee Williams ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I didn't just foster the delusions. I lived them. Even after the world crashed, I clung to them. But after he died, I told myself no more. No more brave fronts or false hopes or pretending everything's okay when nothing is. I thought I was being tough by pretending, calling it being optimistic, brave, keeping my head up or whatever… — Rick Yancey Copy Share
“Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.” — Zen Proverb Copy Share Image
“I still don’t know whether there are more hard or soft things in the world,” — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
“That would probably kill me, so I knew he was exaggerating, but it made me feel soft inside. Nervous too, but soft. It's hard… — Heidi Cullinan Copy Share Image
“Time was when I was immune to emotional shocks. But as I get older, I don't get tougher; I get softer.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“I’m super fucking sensitive. I love this about myself only slightly more than I can’t stand it. Sometimes I wish I were an unfeeling… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“I am having a crisis, she thought. I suddenly feel a new fragile sense of myself in this world and it's unbearable.” — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“Somehow, softness and fragility have survived the apocalypse. I’m not sure how to protect that.” — Rebecca Zanetti Copy Share Image
“Do you really think you’re the only human being alive who is unforgivably flawed? Who’s been hurt almost to the point of breaking?” She… — Vanessa Diffenbaugh 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
