Tennessee Williams quotes

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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.

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

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

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

To be free is to have achieved your life.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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

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.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

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

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other.

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.

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching.