Tennessee Williams

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

alone


Tennessee Williams

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

alone


Tennessee Williams

All good art is an indiscretion.

art


Tennessee Williams

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

death


Tennessee Williams

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

failure


Tennessee Williams

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.

failure


Tennessee Williams

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.

future


Tennessee Williams

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

god


Tennessee Williams

To be free is to have achieved your life.

life


Tennessee Williams

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.

life


Tennessee Williams

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

life


Tennessee Williams

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

money


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