Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSLife is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
-
-
Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? – I wish I knew… Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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 don’t want realism. I want magic!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The human heart would never pass the drunk test…. If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn’t do it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS