“Security is a kind of death.”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
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Famous Tennessee Williams Quotes
Source: The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Source: The Rose Tattoo
“Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play
“Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams: The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. Kingdom of Earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. The two-character play
Source: Three by Tennessee: Sweet Bird of Youth; the Rose Tattoo; the Night of the Iguana
“It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.”
Source: Camino Real
“Sorrow makes for sincerity, I think.”
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
“Things have a way of turning out so badly.”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
Source: The Glass Menagerie
Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”
Source: Where I Live: Selected Essays
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
“All good art is an indiscretion.”
Source: Memoirs
“Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
Source: Notebooks
Source: Collected Stories
Source: Sweet Bird of Youth
Source: The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams
Source: Tales of Desire (New Directions Pearls)
“Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.”
Source: A Streetcar Named Desire
Source: Camino Real
Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live
“I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.”
Source: Where I Live: Selected Essays
Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live
“Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.”
Source: The Night of the Iguana
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.”
Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
Source: Notebooks
“All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur.”
Source: The Two-character Play
“I talk out the lines as I write them.”
Source: The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams
Source: New Selected Essays: Where I Live
Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams
“Not facing a fire doesn't put it out.”
Source: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.”
Source: Notebooks