Quotes by Tennessee Williams

“Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth”

“Were all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!”

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

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”

“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”

“Life is an unanswered question, but lets still believe in the dignity and importance of the question”

“Luck is believing youre lucky.”

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

“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.”

“Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory”

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

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

“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 thats true of everyone, dont you?”

“To be free is to have achieved your life.”

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

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

“A witch and a bitch always dress up for each other, because otherwise the witch would upstage the bitch, or the bitch would upstage the witch, and the result would be havoc”

“All good art is an indiscretion”

“Nothings more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof...”

“But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary”