Death Of A Salesman Quotes

You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away – a man is not a piece of fruit!

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

The world is an oyster, but you don’t crack it open on a mattress!

The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you’re a salesman, and you don’t know that.

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds.[to Willy]

Personality always wins the day.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.

I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw – the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am! Why can’t I say that?[to Willy]

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Be liked and you will never want.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.