Quote

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

Tennessee Williams

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Tennessee Williams
Age: 70 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 1985
Died: February 25
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Columbus
Mississippi
Thomas Lanier Williams III
Thomas Lanier Williams
Thomas Williams
Easily
Broken
Beauty
Beautiful

More quotes by Tennessee Williams

Image
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams
Image
A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young an' believing.
Tennessee Williams
Image
There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
Tennessee Williams
Image
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!
Tennessee Williams
Image
I talk out the lines as I write them.
Tennessee Williams
Image
My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
Tennessee Williams
Image
I must endure & endure & still endure.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Mendacity is a system that we live in, declares Brick. Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.
Tennessee Williams
Image
There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
Tennessee Williams
Image
The name of a person you love is more than language.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
Image
We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families
Tennessee Williams
Image
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
Tennessee Williams
Image
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee Williams
Image
In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.
Tennessee Williams
Image
No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
Tennessee Williams