Quotes from Tennessee Williams

I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.

And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

Just another four-letter word.

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.

The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.

Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!

Is a lifetime long enough to hold the regret that I have for that fantastically aborted but crazily sweet love affair?

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

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

Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!

Every time you come in yelling that God damn Rise and Shine! Rise and Shine! I say to myself, How lucky dead people are!

I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...

Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?

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.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

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. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

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

The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. Poor lady, they'll say, The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.