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

Categorized in : Blood Grieving Want

Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!

Tennessee Williams

monkeys animal pigs

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

sick games people

I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long, and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.

Tennessee Williams

silence long believe

I always said little Truman had a voice so high it could only be detected by bats.

Tennessee Williams

bats voice littles

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

Tennessee Williams

salvation struggle mean

My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.

Tennessee Williams

loneliness writing night

It is, perhaps more than anything else, the arrest of time which has taken place in a completed work of art that gives certain plays their feeling of depth and significance.

Tennessee Williams

taken play art

Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

Tennessee Williams

cat-on-a-hot-tin-roof bricks way

Nobody sees anybody truly, but all through the flaws of their own ego.

Tennessee Williams

flaws ego vision

I don't ask for your pity, but just your understanding - no, not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.

Tennessee Williams

understanding time enemy

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.

Tennessee Williams

compassion heart love

A bedroom is just as nice as whoever sleeps in it with you.

Tennessee Williams

bedroom nice sleep

The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die — with my hand in the hand of some nice-looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch.

Tennessee Williams

doctors nice ocean

The helpless can't help the helpless.

Tennessee Williams

helpless weakness helping

Go, then! Go to the moon-you selfish dreamer!

Tennessee Williams

dreamer selfish moon

If people behaved in the same way nations do they would all be put in straitjackets.

Tennessee Williams

nations people way

I don't think there is such a thing as a precise sexual orientation. I think we're all ambiguous sexually.

Tennessee Williams

lgbt gay thinking

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Tennessee Williams

posthumous alive writing

People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.

Tennessee Williams

people looks thinking

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

Tennessee Williams

radical-change spirit people