Tennessee Williams Quotes - Page 2

You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!-Which it never can be....

life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is-all-over.

-The little comfort of love?
-Is that comfort so little?
-Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for.

When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.

The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.

One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished...

A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing