56 Quotes by Agnes De Mille

Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.

We can't stand the silence because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night's sleep; the second kills.

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

Dance in the body you have.