Tennessee Williams Quotes

I limited myself to one shout a day. But I didn't like the sound of my voice. It sounded panicked, it sounded scared. And I knew from experience you can't hear more than 50 yards either way down a canyon.

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

I can't wait to get out of the house. I can't wait to get out of here. I've been telling myself this all week. The 'getting out of here' part is unspecified, though. Maybe I simply want to get away from life

When a person feels so trapped and no options, they become desperate and in the middle of desperation.

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

I am caught like a beast at bay. Somewhere are people, freedom, light, But all I hear is the baying of the pack, There is no way out for me.

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.

Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out.

All I want is a little more than I'll ever get.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.

I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

I felt I wasn't getting anywhere in England.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

Trapped like a trap in a trap

The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'.

All right, then, I thought: here I am in the bottom of a well.

I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.

Nothing comes at all -- never anything. And I cannot accustom myself to that. It is this monotony, this absolute fixity in life, that is the hardest thing for me to endure. I should like to go away from here. Go away? But where and how? I do not know, and I stay.

I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.