Tennessee Williams Quotes and Quotations
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
In memory, everything seems to happen to music.
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action.
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you can hardly catch it going.
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.
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.
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.
There is a time for departure, even when there's no certain place to go.
Security is a kind of death.
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Luck is believing you're lucky.
When I stop [working], the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm working.
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.
Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes, you'll know you're dead.