Теннесси Уильямс цитаты

„Все мы живем в горящем доме. Пожарным позвонить нельзя, выхода нет. Нам остается лишь наблюдать из окна, со второго этажа, как горит наш дом. А мы в ловушке, заперты внутри.“

—  Теннесси Уильямс

„Молюсь за диких сердцем, заключенных в клетках.“

—  Теннесси Уильямс

Это подзаголовок пьесы Уильямса 1941г. "Лестница на крышу".

„Когда вокруг столько одиноких людей, было бы крайне эгоистично быть одному.“

—  Теннесси Уильямс

„Нашу жизнь мы создаем сами лишь отчасти. Остальное создают друзья, которых мы выбираем.“

—  Теннесси Уильямс

„Чем больше у тебя денег, тем больше знакомых, с которыми ничто тебя не связывает, кроме денег.“

—  Теннесси Уильямс

„Всё на свете могло быть другим, но имело бы тот же смысл.“

—  Теннесси Уильямс

„Если бы отдельные люди вели себя, как целые народы, — на них давно бы надели смирительную рубашку.“

—  Теннесси Уильямс

„Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.“

—  Tennessee Williams

„A Prayer for the Wild at Heart That Are Kept in Cages“

—  Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof

This is the subtitle of the play
Источник: Stairs to the Roof (1941)

„If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.“

—  Tennessee Williams

Источник: Conversations with Tennessee Williams

„I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.“

—  Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

Источник: A Streetcar Named Desire

„The future is called "perhaps," which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.“

—  Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending

Источник: "The Past, the Present and the Perhaps," http://books.google.com/books?id=mTRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+future+is+called+perhaps+which+is+the+only+possible+thing+to+call+the+future+And+the+important+thing+is+not+to+allow+that+to+scare+you%22&pg=PA7#v=onepage introduction to Orpheus Descending (1957)

„A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.“

—  Tennessee Williams

„Caged birds accept each other, but flight is what they long for.“

—  Tennessee Williams

„I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.“

—  Tennessee Williams

„People go to the movies instead of moving!“

—  Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

Tom, Scene Six
Источник: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Контексте: Yes, movies! Look at them — All of those glamorous people — having adventures — hogging it all, gobbling the whole thing up! You know what happens? People go to the movies instead of moving! Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them! Yes, until there's a war. That's when adventure becomes available to the masses! Everyone's dish, not only Gable's! Then the people in the dark room come out of the dark room to have some adventures themselves — Goody, goody! — It's our turn now, to go to the south Sea Island — to make a safari — to be exotic, far-off! — But I'm not patient. I don't want to wait till then. I'm tired of the movies and I am about to move!

„I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?“

—  Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Источник: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

„In memory everything seems to happen to music.“

—  Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

Tom (As Narrator Scene One)
Источник: The Glass Menagerie (1944)

„All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.“

—  Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

Amanda, Scene Six
Источник: The Glass Menagerie (1944)