These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us? Tennessee Williams More Quotes by Tennessee Williams More Quotes From Tennessee Williams You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams. Tennessee Williams dream love people We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. Tennessee Williams fire house looks Bohemia has no banner. It survives by discretion. Tennessee Williams bohemia banner discretion The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. Tennessee Williams nature flower time What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? - I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can. Tennessee Williams victory cat long Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly. Tennessee Williams want men hands 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 giving-up letting-go beautiful All creative work, all life in a sense, is a cri de coeur. Tennessee Williams creative-work creativity creative Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life. Tennessee Williams enthusiasm-for-life family reality There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! Tennessee Williams aristocracy passionate soul Security is a kind of death. Tennessee Williams motivational inspirational life We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. Tennessee Williams god work meaningful Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with! Tennessee Williams Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama. Tennessee Williams speech natural drama When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing. Tennessee Williams posthumous alive writing If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels. Tennessee Williams i-hate-you demon angel We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. Tennessee Williams being-alone lonely loneliness All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent. Tennessee Williams mythology atheism god attempting to find in motion what was lost in space. Tennessee Williams menagerie space lost 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. Tennessee Williams regret men past
