Don’t you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn’t just an hour — but a little bit of eternity dropped in your hands — and who knows what to do with it?
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSWe are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
-
-
I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
I can’t expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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 -
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 -
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
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 WILLIAMS -
The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn’t so funny.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Marriage is an economic arrangement in many ways, let’s face it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
We’ve had this date with each other from the beginning.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Just tell the story and go on to the next one. All of us are full of stories the world might want to hear.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS -
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS