Tennessee Williams Quotes

The helpless can't help the helpless.

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

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

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.

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

I respect a person that has had to fight and howl for his decency.

Talent? What is talent but the ability to get away with something?

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

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

Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Luck is believing you're lucky.

Don't you think there is always something unspoken between two people?

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

I don't want realism. I want magic!

The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.

The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

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

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

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

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

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