Quote

Why is it so damn hard for people to talk?

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
Damn
Talk
Hard
People

More quotes by Tennessee Williams

Image
Security is a kind of death.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you
Tennessee Williams
Image
I don't want realism. I want magic!
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
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.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Everyone says he's sincere, but everyone isn't sincere. If everyone was sincere who says he's sincere there wouldn't be half so many insincere ones in the world and there would be lots, lots, lots more really sincere ones!
Tennessee Williams
Image
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home to eat pone, sip mint juleps, and flog the field hands. This more than anything cultivated my life-long aversion to bicycles.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Switch clicking off in my head, turning the hot light off and the cool night on and — [He looks up, smiling sadly.] — all of a sudden there's—peace!
Tennessee Williams
Image
I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.
Tennessee Williams
Image
We've had this date with each other from the beginning.
Tennessee Williams
Image
I talk out the lines as I write them.
Tennessee Williams
Image
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
Tennessee Williams
Image
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.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!
Tennessee Williams
Image
Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.
Tennessee Williams
Image
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee Williams
Image
The biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched with sick envy.
Tennessee Williams