Tennessee Williams Quotes

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

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

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

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.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death’s the other.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

All good art is an indiscretion.

I don’t want realism. I want magic!

I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

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

Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.

Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.