Tennessee Williams Quotes

“Some people say that science clears up all the mysteries for us. In my opinion it only creates more!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:science mystery

“A fragile, unearthly prettiness has come out in Laura: she is like a piece of translucent glass touched by light, given a momentary radiance, not actual, not lasting.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:light

“Possess your soul in patience — you will see!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:soul patience

“The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth, for all of these huge buildings are always burning with the slow and implacable fires of human desperation.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:suffering poetry

“You live in a dream; you manufacture illusions!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:dream

“Go to the moon — you selfish dreamer!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:dream

“It’s no tragedy, Freckles. Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:care

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Shakespeare probably wrote a poem on that light bill, Mrs. Wingfield.”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

topic:poetry

“Don't you just love these long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour—but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands—and who knows what to do with it?”

― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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