533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

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... Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in life.

I have a poet’s weakness for symbols.

We’re left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day’s playtime.

To know me is not to love me. At.

Well, sooner or later, at some point in your life, the thing that you lived for is lost or abandoned, and then... you die, or find something else.

Of coherency, I usually attempt it.

We mustn’t scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears...

I have met a great many people, nearly all friendly, many of whom I was fairly intimate with in one way of another, but nobody has seemed as close to me in spirit as you are. That was why I thought only of you at those times when my life seemed in danger of falling to pieces.

I soon found myself becoming indifferent to people. A well cynicism rose in me. Conversations all sounded as if they had been recorded years ago and were being played back on a turntable.