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 WILLIAMSAll good art is an indiscretion.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
-
-
Time goes by so fast. Nothin’ can outrun it. Death commences too early–almost before you’re half-acquainted with life–you meet the other.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Luck is believing you’re lucky.
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 -
Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Men don’t want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I am more faithful than I intended to be!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
And it was about then, about that time, that I began to find life unsatisfactory as an explanation of itself and was forced to adopt the method of the artist of not explaining but putting the blocks together in some other way that seems more significant to him. Which is a rather fancy way of saying I started writing.
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 -
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 -
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I don’t want realism. I want magic!
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS