Tennessee Williams Quotes

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
Tennessee Williams

Liar, Hypocrite, Worse

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For time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams

Time, Two, Between

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Tennessee Williams

Alone, Life, Inside

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.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Strong, Person

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Moment, Memory

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Tennessee Williams

Betrayal, Against, Distrust

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams

Alone, Selfish, Lonely

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.
Tennessee Williams

Live, Fire, Down

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams

Life, High, Grace

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

Success, While, Won

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Tennessee Williams

Themselves, Cruel, Describe

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

Forward, Suffering, Dead

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams

Nature, Broken, Mountains

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

Yourself, Person, Hell

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

Life, Question, Dignity

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, Human, Through

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

Rude, Light, Action

Time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams

Time, Two, Between

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Important, Enthusiasm

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Made, Friends

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams

Work, God, Humanity

To be free is to have achieved your life.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Free, Achieved

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
Tennessee Williams

Death, Live, System

In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams

Music, Everything, Happen

Luck is believing you're lucky.
Tennessee Williams

Luck, Believing, Lucky

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: March 26, 1911

Died: February 25, 1983

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