Orpheus Descending Quotes

“What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?”
― Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending

“The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.”
― Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending

“The show is over. The monkey's dead!”
― Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending

“They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give.”
― Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending

“I wanted death after that, but death don't come when you want it, it comes when you don't want it.”
― Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending

“To be not alone, even for a few moments, is worth the pain and the danger.”
― Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending

“But I think people always die alone... with or without relations.”
― Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending