Quotes by Tennessee Williams

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

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

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.

To be free is to have achieved your life.

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.

Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

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

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