I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

—Tennessee Williams

About Tennessee Williams

Portrait of Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Along with contemporaries Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller, he is considered among the three foremost playwrights of 20th-century American drama.

More quotations from Tennessee Williams

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

—Tennessee Williams

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Don Quixote is the true American. . . . You do not have to look in many American eyes to suddenly meet somewhere the beautiful grave lunacy of his gaze.

—Tennessee Williams

To be free is to have achieved your life.

—Tennessee Williams

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A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

—Tennessee Williams

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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

—Tennessee Williams

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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

—Margaret Cho

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

—Ettiene De Grellet

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.