Sweet Bird of Youth Quotes

“I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth

“I don't ask for your pity, but just for your understanding – not even that – no. Just for some recognition of me in you, and the enemy, time, in us all.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth

“Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have the pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy. The spectators and the performers.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth

“Well, sooner or later, at some point in your life, the thing that you lived for is lost or abandoned, and then ... you die, or find something else.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth

“I’ve been accused of having a death wish but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth

“I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of Him is a long, long and awful thing that the whole world is lost because of.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth

“Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth

“Monsters don't die early; they hang on long. Awfully long. Their vanity's infinite, almost as infinite as their disgust with themselves.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth

“Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth

“Princess, the age of some people can only be calculated by the level of - level of - rot in them.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth

“...you’ve gone past something you couldn’t afford to go past; your time, your youth, you’ve passed it. It’s all you had, and you’ve had it.”
― Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth