Tennessee Williams Quotes

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

A man by himself is in bad company.

I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.

I'm perpetually lonely.

It's no fun being lonely.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you're not really alone.

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.