Quotes from Tennessee Williams

Anything might have been anything else and had as much meaning to it.

Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

People go to the movies instead of moving.

Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

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.

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Well, honey, a shot never does a coke any harm!

She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?

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!

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

We've had this date with each other from the beginning.

Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart...

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

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