Quote: A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace. [Tennessee Williams]
Quote: 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. [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: All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness. [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: When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. [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: We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. [Tennessee Williams]
Quote: In memory everything seems to happen to music. [Tennessee Williams]
Quote: I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. [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: 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: Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. [Tennessee Williams]
Quote: Success and failure are equally disastrous. [Tennessee Williams]
Quote: For time is the longest distance between two places. [Tennessee Williams]
Quote: We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal. [Tennessee Williams]
Quote: Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion. [Tennessee Williams]