Quotes by Tennessee Williams

...human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have the pleasure in love and those that havent and hadnt any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy. The spectators and the performers.

People go to the movies instead of moving.

Ignorance of mortality is a comfort.

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.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.--Blanche Dubois

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.

Dont look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes youll know youre dead.

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.

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

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

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

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

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

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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

I cant stand a naked light bulb any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Luck is believing youre lucky.

I wrote because I had to. I couldnt stop. There wasnt anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything anything I ever did Id still be writing. Its beyond a compulsion.