Tennessee Williams Quotes about Heart

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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Tennessee Williams

Heart, Gay, Lgbt Community

Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts.

Tennessee Williams

Heart, People, Littles

Tennessee Williams (2007). “The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams Volume II: 1945-1957”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

Tennessee Williams

Prayer, Heart, Cages

Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.162, New Directions Publishing

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.

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Memories, Heart, Emotional

Tennessee Williams (1990). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams”, p.143, New Directions Publishing

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!

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Taken, Heart, Years

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.

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Love, Heart, Compassion

Tennessee Williams (1971). “The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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

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Heart, Mean, People

The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.

Tennessee Williams

Heart, Drunk, Body

Tennessee Williams, Mel Gussow, Kenneth Holdich (2000). “Plays: 1957-1980: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur”, Hubsta Ltd

William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.

Tennessee Williams

Writing, Heart, Loss

Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.105, New Directions Publishing