"After the Fall" Quotes
"After the Fall" by Arthur Miller explores the psychological and moral struggles of a lawyer reflecting on his relationships and personal failures after the tragic death of his wife.
plays | 145 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
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.
I wanted to be effective. I wanted to use my talent to serve humanity, but I didn't know how.
I know I must appear insane... because I am insane. But I am not so insane that I don't appreciate the difference between a play and a courtroom.
Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is around you.
It is not easy to stand up against your constituents, your friends, your colleagues, your community, and sometimes even against your family.
There is no justice in the world, unless we make it.
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.
Nobody dast blame this man. You don't understand: Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there's no rock bottom to the life.
You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.
What is the secret to success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you get experience? Wrong decisions.
