Quote

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

Arthur Miller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Arthur Miller
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: October 17
Died: 2005
Died: February 10
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Arthur Asher Miller
Train
Worth
Dead
Alive
Ends
Trains
Years
Appointments
Salesman
Highways

More quotes by Arthur Miller

Image
The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller
Image
The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.
Arthur Miller
Image
Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
Arthur Miller
Image
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Arthur Miller
Image
I cannot sleep for dreaming I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.
Arthur Miller
Image
The world is always ending the exact date depends on when you came into it.
Arthur Miller
Image
The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as the poet says, is always through.
Arthur Miller
Image
Flight Reservation Systems decide whether or not you exist. If your information isn't in their database, then you simply don't get to go anywhere.
Arthur Miller
Image
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
Image
...an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.
Arthur Miller
Image
Be liked and you will never want.
Arthur Miller
Image
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Arthur Miller
Image
HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit
Arthur Miller
Image
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
Arthur Miller
Image
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Arthur Miller
Image
An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.
Arthur Miller
Image
It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man.
Arthur Miller
Image
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
Arthur Miller
Image
A friend of mine once said that there were only two truly national events in the history of the United States. One was the Civil War and the other one was the Depression.
Arthur Miller
Image
Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.
Arthur Miller