Tennessee Williams Quotes

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

Death is the most blessed dream.

I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised.

Everybody is going to die, so people are enthralled by the possibility that they don't have to completely die, that there is something that comes afterward. It's like if you're going to France for the summer, you're going to read up on it. Everyone just wants to know where they're going, or if they're going anywhere.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

As a child, I didn't know what they mean by 'to die.' So I grew up in a place where people used to die all the time, but a child is not allowed to see a dead body. When you ask, 'Where is so-and so?' you're told, 'He's gone to another world where we all go to live in the future.'

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this.

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.

To have died once is enough.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

We used to think earthly life was horrible and paradise awaited us when we died. Now we have made earthly life into a paradise and we fear death.

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

Personally, I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate.

I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.

The living are just the dead on holiday

My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

To conquer death you only have to die.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.