Tennessee Williams Quotes

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

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

It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness!

Life is all memory except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.

It haunts me, the passage of time. I think time is a merciless thing. I think life is a process of burning oneself out and time is the fire that burns you. But I think the spirit of man is a good adversary.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!