533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

A fire smokes the most when you start pouring water on it.

To you, whoever you are, when I am gone – remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

Keep awake, alive, new. Perform the paradox of being hard and yet soft. Survive without calcification of the tender membranes. Be a poet. Be alive.

And so tonight we’re going to make the lie true, and when that’s done, I’ll bring the liquor back here and we’ll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into...

Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than – broken down.

Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light...

And funerals are pretty compared to deaths. Funerals are quiet, but deaths – not always. Sometimes their breathing is hoarse, sometimes it rattles, sometimes they cry out to you, Don’t let me go! Even the old sometimes say, Don’t let me go! As if you were able to stop them! Funerals are quiet with pretty flowers. And oh, what gorgeous boxes they pack them away in!

Everyone says he’s sincere, but everyone isn’t sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he’s sincere there wouldn’t be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!