Tennessee Williams Quotes

Time is the fire in which we burn.

Even if you live to be a ripe old age, you live long enough to see the people you love pass away.

Time, Ms. McHenry," Townsend said. "It can be a cruel, cruel thing

Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Life and death are important. Don't suffer them in vain.

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Dying is a tough way to make a living.

Whoever it was who said that to philosophize is an exercise in dying was right in more ways than one, for by writing a book, nobody gets younger.

Things change. Nothing ever stays the same, yo. You ain't never gonna stay 25 or 30 or 40. You always gonna change. Every day, you change.

We can change everything but we can't stop time.

Time moves on for everyone.