Tennessee Williams Heart Quotations

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth.

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

The work of a writer, his continuing work, depends for breath of life on a certain privacy of heart.

There are no 'good' or 'bad' people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice. A blindness to what is going on in each other's hearts...

The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.

Physical beauty is passing - a transitory possession - but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart - I have all these things - aren't taken away but grow! Increase with the years!

William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. "In the time of your life--live!" That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.