Tennessee Williams Quotes

Death was a big part of my life growing up. I went to lots of funerals.

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

I done been to so many funerals.

Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

Down in Denver, all I did was die.

Graves are for the living, not the dead. It gives us something to concentrate on instead of the fact that our loved one is rotting under the ground.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

I hate funerals. They aren't for the guy who's dead. They're for the guys who are left alive and enjoy mourning.

Funerals...are for the living.

I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

This has been harder for my friends. I know I'm going to die.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Blood and death. That moves me.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

Now you may write the eulogy for my funeral.

The war has carried mourning into almost every home … it can almost be said that the heavens are hung in black

I wrote a song called 'Here on Earth,' and the hook is, 'There's no answers here on earth.' Basically, searching for the 'why' when someone passes away, and I feel really fortunate that my dad lived as long as he did. But no matter what happens or how it happens, it's certainly a stinker.

There's nothing funny about violence. Death is a real thing.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

Cancer has been a dark thread that has run throughout my life. It's taken my friends, my parents. My beautiful son.

When anyone dies, it's sad.