533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary

No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the on that you love doesn't love you.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie)

Why, man alive, Laura! Just look about you a little. What do you see? A world full of common people! All of 'em born and all of em' going to die! Which of them has one-tenth of your good points! Or mine! Or anyone else's, as far as that goes - gosh! Everybody excels in some one thing. Some in many!

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together

People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.