Tennessee Williams Quotes

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.

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

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

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.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

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.

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

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

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.

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

There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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?

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