Summer > Summer's Quotes

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

“A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.”
― Tennessee Williams, Stairs to the Roof

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

“Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.”
― Tennessee Williams, Camino Real

“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
― Tennessee Williams, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
― Lord Byron

“Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
― Anaïs Nin

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”
― Oscar Wilde