Arthur Miller quotes

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

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us
- Arthur Miller

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

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

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

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.
- Arthur Miller

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

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.
- Arthur Miller

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.
- Arthur Miller

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.
- Arthur Miller

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

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.
- Arthur Miller

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.
- Arthur Miller

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

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

You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore.
- Arthur Miller

The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.
- Arthur Miller

It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves
- Arthur Miller

You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.
- Arthur Miller

I saw clearly only when I saw with love.
- Arthur Miller

Tragedy enlightens — and it must, in that it points the heroic finger at the enemy of man's freedom.
- Arthur Miller

I cannot write anything that I understand too well.
- Arthur Miller

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
- Arthur Miller

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

I'll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!
- Arthur Miller

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

A child's spirit is like a child, you cannot catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.
- Arthur Miller

You're pulling heaven down, and raising up a whore!
- Arthur Miller

Personality always wins the day.
- Arthur Miller