Tennessee Williams Quotes

Everybody is doing the same old thing.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

If perfect's what you're searching for, then just stay the same.

If you did the same thing you did yesterday as you did today as you will do tomorrow, what have you done? The same thing.

The tendency is to keep doing things the way you have done them.

For me, habit is just a synonym for death.

People are so caught in a routine, doing the same things over and over.

I guess some things never change.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.

Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

The other producer of old age is habit: the deathly process of doing the same thing in the same way at the same hour day after day, first from carelessness, then from inclination, at last from cowardice or inertia. Luckily the inconsequent life is not the only alternative; for caprice is as ruinous as routine. Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

Tradition is laziness.

Marriage must perforce fight against the all-devouring monster of habit.

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

I don't need to be told the same thing every day, every morning, same words.

Habituation puts to sleep the eye of our judgment.

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.

The same old thing--even if it's champagne--is still the same old thing.

He don't wanna change, what don't need to change.

How will the world change if we do not question it?

The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.