Author Profile
Tennessee Williams
1911 – 1983 • American • Dramatist
46
Total Quotes
Collected Meditations
Showing 46 quotesOh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.— Tennessee Williams
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.— Tennessee Williams
If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.— Tennessee Williams
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.— Tennessee Williams
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.— Tennessee Williams
A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.— Tennessee Williams
Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.— Tennessee Williams
Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.— Tennessee Williams
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.— Tennessee Williams
The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.— 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.— Tennessee Williams
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.— Tennessee Williams
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.— Tennessee Williams