Top 15 Arthur Miller Quotes

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.

Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.

I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.

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

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

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

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

I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw — the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? 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! Why can't I say that, Willy?

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