Tennessee Williams Quotes

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams

Death, Time, While

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tennessee Williams

Kindness, Strangers, Depended

All good art is an indiscretion.
Tennessee Williams

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Tennessee Williams

Writing, Cannot, Honest

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.
Tennessee Williams

Future, Important, Possible

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams

Time, Place, Departure

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Why, Write

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Tennessee Williams

God, Whole, Based

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Tennessee Williams

Confidence, Wine, Appear

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
Tennessee Williams

Writing, Working, Alive

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.
Tennessee Williams

Regret, Less, Deal

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams

Nature, Hell, Stuff

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Death, Moment

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Tennessee Williams

Money, Young, Old

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.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Love, Beautiful

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?
Tennessee Williams

Life, Love, Work

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Struggle, Once

Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee Williams

Failure, Success, Disastrous

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
Tennessee Williams

Human, Brother, Word

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams

Work, God, Humanity

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.
Tennessee Williams

Success, Work, Failure

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
Tennessee Williams

Success, Door, Artist

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Great, Character

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: March 26, 1911

Died: February 25, 1983

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