Tennessee Williams Quotes

Time is the longest distance between two places. – Tennessee Williams

I always try to live my life one scene at a time. – Tennessee Williams

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. – Tennessee Williams

Luck is believing you’re lucky. – Tennessee Williams

We all live in a state of apprehension. – Tennessee Williams

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams, the old slaves to regrets. – Tennessee Williams

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

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

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

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels. – Tennessee Williams

You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it. – Tennessee Williams

The world is violent and mercurial – it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love – love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. – Tennessee Williams

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. – Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams Quotes part 2

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write. – Tennessee Williams

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields. – Tennessee Williams

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

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

In memory, everything seems to happen to music. – Tennessee Williams

Home is where you hang your childhood. – Tennessee Williams

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

Time doesn’t take away from friendship, nor does separation. – Tennessee Williams

Make voyages! Attempt them – there’s nothing else. – Tennessee Williams

I don’t want realism. I want magic! – Tennessee Williams

Don’t you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour – but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands? – Tennessee Williams

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. – Tennessee Williams

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

The world is an oyster, but you don’t crack it open on a mattress. – Tennessee Williams

I’m a very old-fashioned writer. I believe that literature should be hard to read and hard to understand. – Tennessee Williams

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite! – Tennessee Williams

Insincerity is always weakness, but sometimes it is also a virtue. – Tennessee Williams

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. – Tennessee Williams

Try to be better than yourself. – Tennessee Williams

To be free is to have achieved your life. – Tennessee Williams

I don’t pretend to be an ordinary housewife. – Tennessee Williams

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. – Tennessee Williams

The world is a prison-house, and if you don’t find yourself on the outside, you’re probably sitting on death row. – Tennessee Williams

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

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

Cruelty is the oldest human sin. – Tennessee Williams

Maybe all men are a drug. Sometimes they bring you down and sometimes, like now, they get you so high. – Tennessee Williams

Nothing is more futile than a person who cleans beyond his or her capacity to possess. – Tennessee Williams

The catastrophe of success is when you have achieved what you have always wanted, and now you can’t stand it. – Tennessee Williams

We are all broken. That’s how the light gets in. – Tennessee Williams

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels. – Tennessee Williams

You can be young without money, but you can’t be old without it. – Tennessee Williams