I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSI 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.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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How long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
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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?
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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.
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Maggie, we’re through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
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I don’t believe in villains or heroes, only in right or wrong ways that individuals are taken, not by choice, but by necessity or by certain still uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances and their antecedents.
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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn’t love you.
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Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
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Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.
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Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
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