Arthur Miller Quotes, Status, and Thoughts

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

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

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

The brain heals the past like an injury.

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

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

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

If you analyse anything, you destroy it.

I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self.

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

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

if you love your country why is it necessary to hate other countries?

Man must shape his tools lest they shape him.

The enemy is within, and within stays within, and we can't get out of within.

Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence.

When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

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