Tennessee Williams Quotes

Time's fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.

I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

I think we all lose in the end because we don't get to stay here forever.

No one survives life.

Our lives carry us along in ways we cannot control, and almost nothing stays with us. It dies when we do, and death is something that happens to us every day.

Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit.

This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

When all is said and done, what is clear is that all lives end before their time.

Tomorrow is another day toward death.

We are all dying. Every single day that we are alive.

Time passes by like lightning. Before you know it you're struck down.

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

Life is but a day at most.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

You realize mortality is everywhere.

Death is a very important part of life.

Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Mortality defines the human condition.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic.