Tennessee Williams Quotes

Make voyages! - Attempt them! - there`s nothing else...

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.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

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

Security is a kind of death.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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?

A witch and a bitch always dress up for each other, because otherwise the witch would upstage the bitch, or the bitch would upstage the witch, and the result would be havoc

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Time is the longest distance between two places.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won`t come out while you`re watching.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.