Tennessee Williams Quotes

American - Dramatist March 26, 1911 - February 25, 1983

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Luck is believing you're lucky.

Tennessee Williams

Saint Patrick's Day Luck You Lucky

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

Tennessee Williams

Liar Hypocrite Only Than

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

Fire Live Look Window

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

Tennessee Williams

Betrayal Only Against Defense Our

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 You

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

Tennessee Williams

Life Friends Choose Make

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 Mountains Road Street

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

Kindness Strangers Always Depended

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

Tennessee Williams

Man Writing Who Honest

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

Work Success Failure I Am

Top 10
Tennessee Williams
Quotes

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

Tennessee Williams

Life Struggle You Without

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

Tennessee Williams

Life Alone Own Inside Our

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

Tennessee Williams

Life Believe Dignity Question

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 Wolf Artist

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Tennessee Williams

Nature Broken Mountains Rocks

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 People

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Tennessee Williams

Success Failure Equally Disastrous

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Tennessee Williams

Time Distance Places Two Longest

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 Time

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

Tennessee Williams

Work God Progress Humanity

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

Tennessee Williams

Work God Progress Humanity

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 You Shy Planning

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

Tennessee Williams

Yourself Hell Feel Person

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

Tennessee Williams

Day Look You Suffering

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 People Strong Person

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 You Important Only

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