Tennessee Williams quotes

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

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Tennessee Williams

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

— Tennessee Williams

“Luck is believing you're lucky.”

— Tennessee Williams

“For time is the longest distance between two places.”

— Tennessee Williams

“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

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

— Tennessee Williams

“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

“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

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

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Tennessee Williams

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Tennessee Williams

“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”

— Tennessee Williams

“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

“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

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

— Tennessee Williams

“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

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

— Tennessee Williams

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”

— Tennessee Williams

“Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.”

— Tennessee Williams

“To be free is to have achieved your life.”

— Tennessee Williams

“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Tennessee Williams

“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

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

— Tennessee Williams

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

— Tennessee Williams

“You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.”

— Tennessee Williams

“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”

— Tennessee Williams