Love Quotes Quote by Tennessee Williams — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You can be young without money, but you can't be old without it.”

“The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be....”

“The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven.”

“Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.”

“Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.”

“When you're missing a peice of yourself, aching, gut wrenching emptiness begins to take over. Until you find the link that completes your very soul, the feeling will never go away. Most people find a way to fill this void, material possessions, a string of relationships, affairs, food...I bare my soul, with words, for all to see.”

“Whoever debases others is debasing himself.”

“There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.”

“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”

“My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.”

“You’ll never be able to find yourself if you’re lost in someone else.”