A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

For time is the longest distance between two places.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

In memory everything seems to happen to music.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Luck is believing you're lucky.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Success and failure are equally disastrous.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

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.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!
- Tennessee Williams Quote

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
- Tennessee Williams Quote

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Time is the longest distance between two places.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
- Tennessee Williams Quote

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
- Tennessee Williams Quote