Arthur Miller Quotes - Page 6

I still feel-kind of temporary about myself.

You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard to stay awake. A small boy will never be harshly criticized at a funeral; he is more treasured as death comes close and all his wickedness vanishes before the inescapable fact that thank God, he is healthy.

... so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o'clock.

Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.

It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.

The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it.

Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other.

Willie was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life?. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake.

It occurs to me that with all the television people watch, most of their acquaintances are actors.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

There is a kind of perverse unity forming among us, born, I think, of the discontent of all classes of people with the endless frustration of life.

A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger.

The world is an oyster but you don't crack it open on a mattress

Studies show that a trusting workplace increases employees' level of happiness, work effort, productivity, and engagement. It also provides an environment that encourages open communication and promotes people to share their ideas.

It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?

most of the time we settle for half and i like it better, even as i know how wrong he was and his death useless, i tremble for i confess that something peversley pure calls to me from his memory

I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp... The concentration camp is the final expression of human separateness and its ultimate consequence. It is organized abandonment.

There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality.