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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof QUOTES

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof QUOTES

1 " Laws of silence don’t work…. When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don’t work, it’s just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn’t put it out. "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

2 " A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

3 " Laws of silence don't work....
When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant.... "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

4 " I know! WHY! – Am I so catty? – Cause I’m consumed with envy an’ eaten up with longing? – "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

5 " The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be.... "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

6 " When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant... "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

7 " What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can... "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

8 " Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you--gently, with love, and hand your life back to you, like something gold you let go of--and I can! I'm determined to do it--and nothing's more determined than a cat on a tin roof--is there? "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

9 " Mendacity is a system that we live in," declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other. "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

10 " Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door. "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

11 " BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch. "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

12 " Sevdiğin biriyle birlikte yaşamak daha da büyük yalnızlık… tamamen yalnız kalmaktan daha büyük yalnızlık! Eğer sevdiğin kişi seni sevmiyorsa… "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

13 " Suskunluğun yasaları işlemiyor. Belleğinde ya da imgeleminde üreyip duran bir şeyler varsa suskunluğun yasaları işlemiyor, tıpkı bir kapıyı kapamak, yanmakta olan bir evin yandığını unutmak için anahtarı kilitte döndürmek gibi bir şey bu. Ama yangınla yüzleşmemek yangını söndürmüyor ki. Bir konuda susmak o konunun boyutlarını büyütüyor sadece. Suskunlukta büyüyor, ürüyor o şey, kötücül oluyor… "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

14 " You two had something that had to be kept on ice, yes, incorruptible, yes!--and death was the only icebox where you could keep it.... "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

15 " In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness. "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

16 " Why is it so damn hard for people to talk? "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

17 " I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage. (Maggie) "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

18 " Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other. "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

19 " Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated. "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

20 " It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's peace. "

― Tennessee Williams , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof