533 Quotes by Tennessee Williams

You know, then, that the public Somebody you are when you “have a name” is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath and which is the sum of your actions and so is constantly in a state of becoming under your own volition – and knowing these things, you can even survive the catastrophe of Success!

The girl who said ‘no’ – she doesn’t exist anymore, she died last summer – suffocated in smoke from something on fire inside her.

Like a Cat on a hot tin roof.

Life has got to go on. No matter what happens, you’ve got to keep on going.

One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!

Oh, I suppose I am sick, one of those weak and divided people who slip like shadows among you solid strong ones. But sometimes, out of necessity, we shadowy people take on a strength of our own.

I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together.

Not facing a fire doesn’t put it out.

I like you to be exactly the way that you are, because in all my experience, I have never known anyone like you.