533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

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!

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

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.

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

I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.