Tennessee Williams Quotes

“Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?”

“I don't want realism. I want magic!”

“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”

“Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!”

“Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!”

“Show me a person who hasn't known any sorrow and I'll show you a superficial.”

“Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.”

“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.”