Tennessee Williams Quotes

The mountain violets break the rocks.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish and rubble.

E'en the rough rocks with tender myrtle bloom, and trodden weeds send out a rich perfume.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Sorrows are gardeners: they plant flowers along waste places, and teach vines to cover barren heaps.

...the men of the Ulysses had no need to stand in shame...many had found, or were finding, that the point of no return was not necessarily the edge of the precipice: it could be the bottom of the valley, the beginning of the long climb up the far slope, and when a man had once begun that climb he never looked back to that other side.

The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force

We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'.

There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.

By endurance we conquer.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

Yesterday from my office window I saw a crippled girl negotiating her way across the street, her shoulders squarely braced. At each jerky movement her hair flew back like an annunciatory angel, and I saw she was the only dancer on the street.

i will never say never i will fight i will fight till forever make it right whenever you knock me down i will not stay on the ground pick it up and never say never

To keep on trying in spite of disappointment and failure is the only way to keep young and brave. Failures become victories if they make us wise-hearted.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

They say behind mountains are more mountains.

Yield thou not to adversity, but press on the more bravely.

The struggles I'm facing, the chances I'm taking.Sometimes they knock me down, but, no, I'm not breaking.I may not know it, but these are the momentsI am going to remember most, just got to keep going.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.