533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

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

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. --Blanche Dubois

Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love..

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. 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?