What you need is someone to take hold of you–gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of–and I can! I’m determined to do it–and nothing’s more determined than a cat on a tin roof–is there?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSThe helpless can’t help the helpless.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
-
-
The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I’m not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Some things are not forgiveable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS






