Tennessee Williams

-The little comfort of love? -Is that comfort so little? -Caged birds accept each other but flight is what they long for. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#love #freedom

I hope to die in my sleep, when the time comes, and I hope it will be in the beautiful big brass bed in my New Orleans apartment, the bed which is associated with so much love. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#beauty

When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#monotony #change

Wer ein schlechtes Gedächtnis hat, dem bleibt keine andere Wahl als die Wahrheit zu sagen. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#life

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

— Tennessee Williams

#love #love

You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished... ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#society #life

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#character #deal #even #great #great deal

Success and failure are equally disastrous. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#equally #failure #success

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

— Tennessee Williams

#brother #dangerous #human #most #tongue

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

— Tennessee Williams

#guinea #guinea pigs #humanity #just #laboratory