Tennessee Williams: Trending quotes (page 7)

“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

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

“A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages”

“Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.”

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”

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

“I didn't go to the moon, I went much further—for time is the longest distance between two places”

“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.”

“Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.”

“In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.”

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!”

“Everybody is nothing until you love them.”

“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”

“Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families”

“What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?”

“Success and failure are equally disastrous.”

“Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?”

“For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye….”