533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

The future is called ‘perhaps,’ which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

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

I don’t want realism. I want magic!

I don’t believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

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

There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts...

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

Let’s go down and swim in that liquid moonlight.

Don’t you think there is always something unspoken between two people?