Tennessee Williams Quotes
Enjoy the top 332 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Tennessee Williams.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
— Tennessee Williams
“In memory, everything seems to happen to music.”
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
“Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.”
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”
— Tennessee Williams
“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
“I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)”
— Tennessee Williams
“People go to the movies instead of moving.”
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark
that sort of make everything else seem
unimportant.
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
“The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.”
— Tennessee Williams
These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?
— Tennessee Williams
I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together
— 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
— Tennessee Williams
I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered - by life ...
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
“As for me, no one will ever love me. But you could get used to me, couldn't you, Jimmy?”
— Tennessee Williams
“Security is a kind of death.”
— Tennessee Williams
“Big Daddy: Ignorance - of morality - is a comfort.”
— Tennessee Williams
“We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears ...”
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
“What's talent but the ability to get away with something?”
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
Let's go down and swim in that liquid moonlight.
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
“I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.”
— Tennessee Williams
“I don't want realism. I want magic!”
— Tennessee Williams
The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
— Tennessee Williams
“I talk out the lines as I write them.”
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick.
— Tennessee Williams
“The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.”
— Tennessee Williams
“Nobody sees anybody truly but only through the flaws of their own ego.”
— Tennessee Williams
No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
— Tennessee Williams
— Tennessee Williams
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