Tennessee Williams Quotes

Most popular Tennessee Williams Quotes

Humanity is just a work in progress. - Tennessee Williams quote.
Humanity is just a work in progress.
— Tennessee Williams
A snare for the truth of human experience. - Tennessee Williams quote.
A snare for the truth of human experience.
— Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

theater truth

The loveliest of all four-letter words—Work! - Tennessee Williams quote.
The loveliest of all four-letter words—Work!
— Tennessee Williams Memoirs

work

Time is the longest distance between two places. - Tennessee Williams quote.
Time is the longest distance between two places.
— Tennessee Williams

time

I'm not living with you.  We occupy the same cage. - Tennessee Williams quote.
I'm not living with you.  We occupy the same cage.
— Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. - Tennessee Williams quote.
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
— Tennessee Williams

honesty

Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for. - Tennessee Williams quote.
Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.
— Tennessee Williams Camino Real

freedom

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. - Tennessee Williams quote.
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
— Tennessee Williams Camino Real

change

We have to mistrust each other.  It is our only defense against betrayal. - Tennessee Williams quote.
We have to mistrust each other.  It is our only defense against betrayal.
— Tennessee Williams Camino Real

trust betrayal

The world is a funny paper read backwards.  And that way it isn't so funny. - Tennessee Williams quote.
The world is a funny paper read backwards.  And that way it isn't so funny.
— Tennessee Williams The Observer

the world

Without deprivation and struggle there is no salvation and I am just a sword cutting daisies. - Tennessee Williams quote.
Without deprivation and struggle there is no salvation and I am just a sword cutting daisies.
— Tennessee Williams Esquire

adversity

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. - Tennessee Williams quote.
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
— Tennessee Williams

loneliness

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. - Tennessee Williams quote.
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
— Tennessee Williams

life

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going. - Tennessee Williams quote.
Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by so quick you hardly catch it going.
— Tennessee Williams
High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. - Tennessee Williams quote.
High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
— Tennessee Williams Memoirs

grace

Time is a merciless thing.  I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you. - Tennessee Williams quote.
Time is a merciless thing.  I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you.
— Tennessee Williams The New York Post

time

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. - Tennessee Williams quote.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
— Tennessee Williams in The New York Times

purpose of life struggle life

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy—it won't come out while you're watching. - Tennessee Williams quote.
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it ... Success is shy—it won't come out while you're watching.
— Tennessee Williams

success

Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitable fatal operation. - Tennessee Williams quote.
Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitable fatal operation.
— Tennessee Williams The Rose Tattoo

time

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.
— Tennessee Williams The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore

memory