Tennessee Williams Quotes - Page 2

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Vanity, fear, desire, competition - all such distortions within our own egos - condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.

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.

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

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

The name of a person you love is more than language.

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

Guessing isn't knowing.

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

The helpless can't help the helpless.

Time doesn't take away from true friendship, nor does separation.

Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?

We lose the magic whenever we stop telling our story and begin to wonder how we're doing, if we're selling it, if the listener likes us. Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.

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.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.

Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.