533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

And in the spring, it’s touching to notice them making their first discovery of love! As if nobody had ever known it before!

You said, ‘They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.’ ‘What,’ I asked you, ‘is harmless about a dreamer, and what,’ I asked you, ’is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

The last we heard of him was a picture postcard from Mazatlan, on the Pacific coast of Mexico, containing a message of two words: “Hello – Goodbye!” and no address.

The world is violent and mercurial – it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love – love for each other and the love that we pour into the art we feel compelled to share: being a parent; being a writer; being a painter; being a friend. We live in a perpetually burning building, and what we must save from it, all the time, is love.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast. It’s like nothing else. It’s like a love affair, it goes on and on, and doesn’t end in marriage. It’s all courtship.

I am running away but I prefer to call it a strategic retreat.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable. – Blanche Dubois.

I’m not good. I don’t know why people have to pretend to be good, nobody’s good.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don’t want glory like that in nobody’s heart.