Tennessee Williams Quotes

“Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:love

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery—love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:love youth

“Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:love man fight

“the human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others”

― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

topic:death

“I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:truth

“magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don't tell truth, I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:truth sin

“I didn’t go to the moon, I went much further — for time is the longest distance between two places.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:time

“Physical beauty is passing. A transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart–and I have all of those things–aren't taken away, but grow! Increase with the years!”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:time beauty mind

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don’t plan for it!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:time past

“After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

topic:women

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