Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.
Arthur MillerRead
The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the urgency and impact of the present moment.
Arthur Miller's quote illustrates the significance of 'now' as a critical point in time that demands our attention and action. It suggests that the present moment, much like a ticking bomb, carries an inherent urgency, pushing us to recognize the fleeting nature of life and the importance of living fully in the moment.
In practice
During a motivational speech on living in the moment.
Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony. The difference is that I try to take my agony home and teach it to sing.
Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story.
Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away.
Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.
The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.
History does not repeat itself. Nor does it unfold in cycles. The real future is contingent, rich beyond imagining, a perennial gobsmack, tragic and glorious in equal measure; the pundits' future, spun of 'conventional wisdom,' is only a sucker punch to that common-sense fact.
I can measure the motion of bodies but I cannot measure human folly.
Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.
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