457 Quotes by Arthur Miller

The car, the furniture, the wife, the children – everything has to be disposable. Because you see the main thing today is – shopping.

This is not god Marco you hear me, only god makes justice.

Charley: He won’t starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?

Everything influences playwrights. A playwright who isn’t influenced is never of any use.

MOTHER: What more can we be! CHRIS: You can be better! Once and for all you can know there’s a universe of people outside and you’re responsible to it, and unless you know that you threw away your son because that’s why he died.

When a deposit bottle is broken, you don’t get your nickel back.

PROCTOR – he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong – if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don’t live in the same place for very long.

The tragic right is a condition of life, a condition in which the human personality is able to flower and realize itself. The wrong is the condition which suppresses man, perverts the flowing out of his love and creative instinct. Tragedy enlightens-and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man’s freedom. The thrust for freedom is the quality in tragedy which exalts. The revolutionary questioning of the stable environment is what terrifies.