A Streetcar Named Desire Quotes

“Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable. It is the one unforgivable thing in my opinion and it is the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with! Here is a picture of him!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“I think you have a great capacity for devotion,”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“A single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she’ll be lost!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Y'know how indifferent I am to money. I think of money in terms of what it does for you.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light.”
― Tennessee Williams , A Streetcar Named Desire

“I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents.
This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Oh, I hope candles are going to glow in his life”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Whoever you are – I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“When I was sixteen, I made the discovery – love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that’s how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded. There was something different about the boy, a nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn’t like a man’s, although he wasn’t the least bit effeminate-looking – still – that thing was there … He came to me for help. I didn’t know that. I didn’t find out anything till after our marriage when we’d run away and come back and all I knew was I’d failed him in some mysterious way and wasn’t able to give the help he needed but couldn’t speak of! He was in the quicksands and clutching at me – but I wasn’t holding him out, I was slipping in with him! I didn’t know that. I didn’t know anything except I loved him unendurably but without being able to help him or help myself. Then I found out. In”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“BLANCHE: You see I still have that awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are slipping!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“أنا لا أريد الواقع , سأقول لك ما أريد. السحر! نعم السحر ! أحاول تقديم ذلك إلى الناس . إني أشوه الأمور لهم . إني لا أقول الحقيقة . إني أقول ما يجب أن يكون الحقيقة .

الأسى يعزز الإخلاص .. إنه يبرزه لدى الناس بالتأكيد .. أرني شخصاً لم يعرف الأسى , أريك أنه سطحي

ربما كنا بعيدين جداً عن اتخاذنا صورة الرب , ولكن لقد حصل بعض التقدم منذ ذلك الوقت! أمور مثل الفنون , مثل الشعر والموسيقى .. لقد أشرقت على العالم أنواع من النور الجديد منذ ذلك الوقت! لقد بدأت تظهر لدى بعض فئات الناس مشاعر أرق ! ويجب علينا أن ننميها ونتمسك بها ونجعلها شعاراً لنا في هذا المسير المظلم نحو أي شيء نقترب منه ...

إن فردوس البائس هو بعض من الإطمئنان”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of hue, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice. “The Broken Tower” by Hart Crane”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire