457 Quotes by Arthur Miller

The brain heals the past like an injury...

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you’re a salesman, and you don’t know that.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn’t create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they’re treading water – that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn’t mean anything at all in this world. And that’s a despairing and destructive feeling. It’ll kill you.

You have made your magic now.

Controlled hysteria is what’s required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It’s agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.

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.

MARCHAND, leaning forward to see Monceau: You would think, though, that with the manpower shortage they’d economize on personnel. In the car that stopped me there was a driver, two French detectives, and a German official of some kind. They could easily have put a notice in the paper – everyone would have come here to present his documents. This way it’s a whole morning wasted. Aside from the embarrassment. LEBEAU: I’m not embarrassed, I’m scared to death. To Bayard: You embarrassed?

The word “now” is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

You make mountains out of molehills.