Arthur Miller Quotes

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance — you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

Because most people ain't people.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.

Bir inanç ortalığı kana boyuyorsa, o inanca sarılıp kalmayın, insanı canından eden bir yasa yanlış bir yasadır.Yaşam, kadınım, yaşam. Tanrının en değerli lütfudur bize. Hiçbir ilke ne kadar yüksek, ne kadar parlak olursa olsun, kimseye can almak hakkını vermez.

Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

It's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for a two week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And still-that's how you build a future.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks … on screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. It isn't easy to do in the theater, but it's twice as hard in film.

There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

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.

It was in my twenties that I felt old, that was when time was an abrasive wheel grinding me down. But it was not so much death I feared as insignificance.

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