There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about time
Quotes by Tennessee Williams, page 2
45 quotes by Tennessee Williams
Tennessee Williams - american playwriter
Also called: Thomas Lanier Williams.
Was born on 26 mar 1911.
Died on 25 feb 1983, at 71 years old.
Died on 25 feb 1983, at 71 years old.
Origin country: United States
Why did I write, because I found life unsatisfactory.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, life
We have to distrust each other, it is our only defense against betrayal.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about doubt
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about time
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about life
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about life, grace
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about hell, nature
All of us are Guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about people, progress, humanity, god, work
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about hell, people
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, vulgarity, action, light
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.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, failure, night, work
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, regret, people
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.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about future, things
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
Quote by Tennessee Williams about lie, things
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 that's true of everyone, don't you?
Quote by Tennessee Williams about truth, love, work, time, life
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
Quote by Tennessee Williams about opinion, fire, fire brigade, home, house
