Tennessee Williams Quotes

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

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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

Luck is believing you're lucky.

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

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

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages.

Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you -- gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

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

Just another four letter word.

It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof...

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.