533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

Animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements and attitudes. Since earliest manhood the center of his life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of it, not with weak indulgence, dependently, but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird among hens. […] He sizes women up with a glance, with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind and determining the way he smiles at them.

It's interesting, isn't it? . . . the chandelier . . . it reminds me of mushroom soup.

Yes, we all use each other and that's what we think of as love, and not being able to use each other is what's--hate....

...love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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

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

You were a wonderful lover.... Such a wonderful person to go to bed with, and I think mostly because you were really indifferent to it.

These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?