A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
Tennessee Williams

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
Tennessee Williams

All good art is an indiscretion.
Tennessee Williams

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Tennessee Williams

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Tennessee Williams

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
Tennessee Williams

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Tennessee Williams

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
Tennessee Williams

For time is the longest distance between two places.
Tennessee Williams


Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
Tennessee Williams

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
Tennessee Williams

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
Tennessee Williams

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Tennessee Williams

I 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. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
Tennessee Williams

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.
Tennessee Williams

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
Tennessee Williams

In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
Tennessee Williams