Tennessee Williams Quotes

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.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!

We’re all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

If you can’t be yourself, what’s the point of being anyone else?

Friends are God’s way of apologizing to us for our families

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

I don’t want realism. I want magic!

There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

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.

For time is the longest distance between two places.

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

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that’s also a hypocrite!

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.