Tennessee Williams

Film & Theater USA 1911 – 1983 98 quotes

Southern Gothic master of A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams crafted quotable lines on desire, decay, and illusion.

Quotes by Tennessee Williams

The only thing that matters is love.

Interview

I write because I have to.

Interview

The world is a beautiful place, if you know where to look.

Interview

We are all just trying to find our place in the world.

Interview

The greatest adventure is to live your life to the fullest.

Interview

I am a dreamer, and I dream of a better world.

Interview

The only way to be truly free is to be yourself.

Interview

We are all just trying to find happiness.

Interview

The world is a mystery, and we are all just trying to solve it.

Interview

I believe in the power of art to change the world.

Interview

We've had this date with each other from the beginning.

A Streetcar Named Desire (play) 1947

I don't want realism. I'll do everything in my power to avoid it.

Interview 1959

Mendacity is a system that we live in.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (play) 1955

The only thing worse than a lie is a truth that has been twisted.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (play) 1955

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

The Glass Menagerie (play) 1944

Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going?

The Glass Menagerie (play) 1944

The world is a funny paper read backwards.

A Streetcar Named Desire (play) 1947

Don't turn the light on!

A Streetcar Named Desire (play) 1947

Stella! Hey, Stella!

A Streetcar Named Desire (play) 1947

After the death of my mother, I found myself in a strange, empty house.

Memoirs 1975