Death Salesman Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 'Death of a Salesman' is a brilliant taxonomy of the spiritual atrophy of mid-twentieth-century white America.

John Lahr

#3. 'Death Of A Salesman' is a great acting job.

Ken Stott

#4. I really enjoy theater. I just went to see 'Death of a Salesman,' and it knocked me on my ass.

Jason Reitman

#5. I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one's shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the valley.

Criss Jami

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Mike Nichols

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

Eudora Welty

#11. Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.

Radhanath Swami

#12. 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

#13. You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You're some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won't have to become coins.

Rumi

#14. I try to avoid cheese, dairy and a lot of meat, but I do like them.

Lynda Carter

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

Arthur Miller

#16. 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

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

Arthur Miller

#18. The two great things about computer CG stuff are I can now do gags I would never have dreamed of in the old day.

George A. Romero

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

Woody Allen

#20. 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