Arthur Miller Quotes & Sayings

“Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.”

“The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.”

“The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.”

“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.”

“Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?”

“You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.”