Arthur Miller: Trending quotes (page 5)

“… an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.”

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

“We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!”

“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”

“A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.”

“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.”

“Sometimes… it's better for a man just to walk away.
But if you can't walk away?
I guess that's when it's tough.”

“Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.”

“More Weight
-Giles Corey”

“It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves”

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

“I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.”

“A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.”

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

“The two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity.”

“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.”

“I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.”

“The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.”

“Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!”