Tennessee Williams

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

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Death commences too early – almost before you're half-acquainted with life – you meet the other.

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

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. Its inflammatory.

Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

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

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

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Liquor is one way out an' death's the other.

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

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.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

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 to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

If I am no longer disturbed myself I will deal less with disturbed people but I dont regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

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

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

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

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

All good art is an indiscretion.

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.

Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

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

Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

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.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

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

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!

Funerals are pretty compared to death. Funerals are quiet but deaths not always.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

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

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 whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

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.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar thats also a hypocrite

A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

I think that hate is a thing a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

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

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

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

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

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand or a mouth on a mouth.

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

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

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

Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than broken down.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

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 revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing.

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

To be free is to have achieved your life.

There is a time for departure even when theres no certain place to go.