Arthur Miller Quotes

American playwright and essayist (1915–2005)

Arthur Asher Miller (17 October 1915 – 10 February 2005) was an American playwright, essayist, and author. Widely recognized as one of the most significant American playwrights of the 20th Century, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 for Death of a Salesman.

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Pen Names: Jonathan Lovelett

Birth Name: Arthur Asher Miller

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PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say — I say — God is dead!

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile area, that all gods were useful and essentially friendly to man despite occasional lapsesl when we see the steady methodical inculcation into humanity of the idea of man's worthlesseness - until redeemed - the necessity of the Devil may become evident as a weapon, a weapon designed and used time and time again in every age to whip men into a surrender to a particular church or church state.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off.

I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!

we are only what we always were

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

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world.

An era can be considered over when its basic illusions have been exhausted.

[W]e conceive the Devil as a necessary part of a respectable view of cosmology. Ours is a divided empire in which certain ideas and emotions and actions are of God, and their opposites are of Lucifer. It is as impossible for most men to conceive of a morality without sin as of an earth without 'sky'. Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped out God's beard and the Devil's horns, but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes. The concept of unity, in which positive and negative are attributes of the same force, in which good and evil are relative, ever-changing, and always joined to the same phenomenon - such a concept is still reserved to the physical sciences and to the few who have grasped the history of ideas.

Because most people ain't people.

I get here, and I don't know what to do with myself. I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life

If you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world, if you are content to get nowhere, just take each day as it comes, if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked.