Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSOnce you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
-
-
But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
This is so simple I’m ashamed to say it, but I’m sure it’s true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that’s why I don’t understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
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.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS