Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

Tennessee Williams


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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.

Tennessee Williams


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Oh, 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, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there?

Tennessee Williams


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My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is--all--over....

Tennessee Williams


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I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

Tennessee Williams


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It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace.

Tennessee Williams

Mots clés alcoholism



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The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

Tennessee Williams


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Living with someone you love can be lonelier than living entirely alone, if the one that you love doesn't love you.

Tennessee Williams


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There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

Tennessee Williams

Mots clés aristocracy in-memory-of-an-aristocrat



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The name of a person you love is more than language.

Tennessee Williams

Mots clés love



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