Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door.
Tennessee WilliamsRead
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Time brings both distractions and the inevitability of death.
Tennessee Williams uses this quote to convey the paradox of life, where time offers us myriad distractions and pleasures, symbolized as 'narcotics', while simultaneously reminding us of our mortality. It suggests an awareness that amidst life's fleeting joys, we are ultimately subject to the inexorable passage of time which leads to our inevitable end.
Themes
TimeMortalityLifeDistractionDeath
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about the fleeting nature of life at a philosophical seminar.
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
We have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world.
Jill Bolte TaylorRead
Fear the sins that you commit in secret, because the Witness of those sins is the Judge Himself!
Ali Ibn Abi TalibRead
The disruptive powers of excessive national fecundity may have played a greater part in bursting the bonds of convention than either the power of ideas or the errors of autocracy.
John Maynard KeynesRead
But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely.
Friedrich NietzscheRead
Peril, loneliness, an uncertain future, are not oppressive evils, so long as the frame is healthy and the faculties are employed; so long, especially, as Liberty lends us her wings, and Hope guides us by her star.
Charlotte BronteRead
There is nothing good or evil save in the will.
EpictetusRead