Tennessee Williams
Southern Gothic master of A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams crafted quotable lines on desire, decay, and illusion.
Quotes by Tennessee Williams
We are all of us in a trauma, and we are all of us in a dream.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
We all have our little tricks to make us feel important.
Security is a kind of death.
The world is a pretty foul place, and somebody's got to clean it up.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
I don't want realism. I want magic!
The only way to be a good writer is to be a good person.
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
A poet's work is to make others feel what he feels.
The future is a thing that has to be earned.
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins.
You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
Ugly people are not allowed to be proud.
The only thing that can save us is love.
I have a great fear of being alone.
We're all trapped in our own little cages.