Top 29 Death O F Salesman Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Death O F Salesman

#1. In my world death was like a nameless and incomprehensible hand, a door-to-door salesman who took away mothers, beggars, or ninety year old neighbors, like a hellish lottery.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#2. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#3. Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead.

Ian Fleming

#4. Ghosts, unicorns, and gods. That seemed much less of a fantasy than the twenty-first century.

Rick Riordan

#5. There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Woody Allen

#6. I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

Leo Tolstoy

#7. Be an individual, work hard, study, get your mind straight, and trust nobody.

Tupac Shakur

#8. I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!

Arthur Miller

#9. It was late afternoon. This time tomorrow he would be somewhere on a good graveled road, driving his car past things that happened to people, quicker than their happening.
("Death of a Traveling Salesman")

Eudora Welty

#10. But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

Robert E. Howard

#11. Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.

Conan O'Brien

#12. See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals ...

Arthur Miller

#13. I study these things.I'm an academic.I don't get tangled up in trivial matters of the heart.

Lauren Kate

#14. He's on a bus to Las Vegas. He has a friend there who will give him a job."

She brightened up very suddenly. "Oh- to Las Vegas? How sentimental of him. That's where we were married."

"I guess he forgot," I said, "or he would have gone somewhere else.

Raymond Chandler

#15. We did not go right to sleep but talked until late into the night. There was so much to tell one another, so many questions on my mind.

Janette Oke

#16. My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#17. Arrogant people habitually overestimated their own abilities and underestimated everyone else's.

David Baldacci

#18. He did not like illness, he distrusted it, as he distrusted the road without signposts.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")

Eudora Welty

#19. I'm in the theater because of two plays: 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and 'Death of a Salesman.'

Mike Nichols

#20. And it was so still. The silence of the fields seemed to enter and move familiarly through the house. The wind used the open hall. He felt that he was in a mysterious, quiet, cool danger. It was necessary to do what? ... to talk.
("Death Of A Traveling Salesman")

Eudora Welty

#21. Oh, certainly, 'The Wings of Death' is not amusing," ventured Mrs. Leveret, whose manner of putting forth an opinion was like that of an obliging salesman with a variety of other styles to submit if his first selection does not suit.

Edith Wharton

#22. But I keep thinking love should be like a tree. You look at trees and they've got bumps and scars from tumors, infestations, what have you, but they're still growing. Despite the bumps and bruises, they're--straight.

Lorrie Moore

#23. Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

Elia Kazan

#24. Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with ... truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

Pope John XXIII