Tennessee Williams Quotes

I have three friendships that have lasted a long time, but everybody else has come and gone.

The expression that friends are the family you choose, is so powerful, because most people are close with their families, and when you add people into that level of trust, love, and loyalty, it's a really meaningful thing. The fact you're actively choosing each other is so beautiful at its core.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are as strong as steel. And I cannot throw them off, nor altogether do with them or without them. And I love them at the point where they say: It is nice to see you again. And I love them too at the point when they say: Good-bye, come again soon. The rhythm of friendship is a very good rhythm.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

People come in and out of our lives, and the true test of friendship is whether you can pick back up right where you left off the last time you saw each other.

I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.

I have the same group of friends I've had since I was three.

Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Yes, the meeting of dear friends atones for the regret of separation; and like it so much enhances affection, that after absence one wonders how one has been able to stay away from them so long.

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Julia is one of the most loyal people who ever lived. Her best friend is her best friend from third grade, and her other best friends are her best friends from Northwestern. Once you're a pal, you're a pal for life with Jules. I'm not just flattering her because she's my wife.

You don't fully appreciate your band until you're away from them.

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine.

I have stunning friends. I value my friendships as I value my family.