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Tennessee Williams Quotes

Total quotes: 32
“I am running away but I prefer to call it just a 'strategic retreat'.”
— Tennessee Williams, The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, 1920-1945
Tagged: Running Away, fleeing, Escaping, strategic retreat, Life, strategy
“Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?”
— Tennessee Williams, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton And Other One-Act Plays
Tagged: Love & Connection, Wondering
“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”
— Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tagged: Love, Regret
“I want to infect you with the tremendous excitement of living, because I believe that you have the strength to bear it.”
— Tennessee Williams, The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume I: 1920-1945
Tagged: Human Existence, Strength And Courage, Living, Life Quotes
“I’m not good. I don’t know why people have to pretend to be good, nobody’s good.”
— Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tagged: Good, kindness, Pretention
“Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.”
— Tennessee Williams, Notebooks
Tagged: saving, Bravery, strength
“My life is entirely too internal.”
— Tennessee Williams, Notebooks
Tagged: Life, Internal, Silence, Introvert, Reflection
“Even I am kinder to myself than I used to be — remember those old agonies?”
— Tennessee Williams, Notebooks
Tagged: kindness, self, Self Care, self awareness, Self Acceptance, old agony, Inspirational
“The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”
— Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending
Tagged: Future, Perhaps, Courage
“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.”
— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Tagged: Future, present, Past, Regret, plan
“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.”
— Tennessee Williams, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume 5: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore/Kingdom of Earth
Tagged: trapped
“I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.”
— Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth
Tagged: Feelings, Hatred, Understanding
“My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is--all--over....”
— Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tagged: Life, Living, Dream, End
“I’m not really so hard & cynical after all — in fact I’m still dangerously soft.”
— Tennessee Williams, Notebooks
“Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!”
— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire(New Directions Paperbook)
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“Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.”
— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire(New Directions Paperbook)
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“Why didn’t it happen between us? Why did I fail? Why did you come close enough… and not closer?”
— Tennessee Williams, Summer and Smoke
Tagged: Love, Quote of the Moment
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
— Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
Tagged: Lonely, Alone, selfishness, Paradox
“Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.”
— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Tagged: Disappointed, Discourage
“The name of a person you love is more than language.”
— Tennessee Williams, Hard Candy: A Book of Stories
Tagged: Love, Language
“Oh, you can’t describe someone you’re in love with!”
— Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
Tagged: Love, person you love, describing someone, depicting, picturing, Image, Person
“I suppose 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.”
— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams
Tagged: Hysteria, character, Desperate, fragile, Strong
“Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.”
— Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
Tagged: Just Do It, Courage, travel, Take Risk
“Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.”
— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams
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“A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.”
— Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof
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“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.”
— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams
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“Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”
— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams
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“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”
— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams
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“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”
— Tennessee Williams, Conversations With Tennessee Williams
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“You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.”
— Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
Tagged: For The Dreamers
“People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.”
— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Tagged: Problems, Disappointed
“Literature has taken a backseat to the television, don’t you think? It really has. We don’t have a culture anymore that favors the creation of writers, or supports them very well. I mean, serious artists. On Broadway, what they want are cheap comedies and musicals and revivals. It’s nearly impossible to get serious work even produced, and then it’s lucky to have a run of a week. The critics are literally killing writers.”
— Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams, The Art of Theater No. 5
Tagged: Literature, Culture, broadway, Television, literature vs. television
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