Tennessee Williams Quotes

It's amazing how much distance one truth can create between two people.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.

Something there is that does not love a wall.

Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

The walls of pride are high and wide, can't see over to the other side.

Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.

Mistrust and misunderstanding are the major obstacles for people getting together .

Lack of communication is the key to any successful relationship going wrong.

The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.

Pride definitely causes a lack of communication.

Sometimes, when I open my mouth, all hell breaks loose. Other times, I feel like a voice in the wilderness and I wonder, 'Does anybody get this?'

Keeping families and friends divided is unforgivable.

We're not in the business of putting up barriers; that's the job of politicians. They're the idiots who want to build walls between people.

I could hear rain still pouring from the gutters and a thin branch scraping against one of the windows; but the church seemed completely cut off from the restless day outside--just as I felt cut off from the church. I thought: I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.