Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
Interpretation
What this quote means
This quote signifies the end of dishonesty and the need for truth in personal connections.
In this quote, Tennessee Williams communicates a definitive break from deception and falsehood within the intimate sphere of a home. It emphasizes the necessity of integrity and trust in relationships, advocating for the importance of honesty as a foundational element for a healthy domestic environment.
Themes
HonestyTruthRelationshipsDeceptionIntegrity
In practice
Example use cases
Use this quote at a family gathering to emphasize the importance of trust.
More from Tennessee Williams
All quotes →Show me a person who hasn´t known any sorrow and I´ll show you a superficial.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
Success and failure are equally disastrous.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
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.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
Tennessee WilliamsRead
Similar quotes
What bothers me is that there is so much emphasis on food, rather than gathering and meeting - so that there is all this effort in creating the right food, whereas the food is only a small part of whether the encounter is successful or not.
Alain De BottonRead
By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.
George PackerRead
That fiend!" Mr. Darling would cry, and Nana's bark was the echo of it, but Mrs. Darling never upbraided Peter; there was something in the right-hand corner of her mouth that wanted her not to call Peter names.
James M. BarrieRead
If you wear a different perfume every day, I do not recognize you.
Oscar De La RentaRead
I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.
Leo BuscagliaRead
The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
Alfred KinseyRead