The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSIt is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
-
-
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 -
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Everybody is nothing until you love them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.
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 -
To be free is to have achieved your life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
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?
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 -
We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Some things are not forgiveable.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The helpless can’t help the helpless.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Vanity, fear, desire, competition – all such distortions within our own egos – condition our vision of those in relation to us.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
And funerals are pretty compared to deaths.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin’ orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The name of a person you love is more than language.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS