“The frantic desire to live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want everyone to scratch himself to death.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, for grander failures. I want the whole world to be out… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There are people in this world who cut such a grotesque figure that even death renders them ridiculous. And the more horrible… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“At no time in the history of man has the world been so full of pain and anguish. Here and there, however,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of time is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If this was the true self it was marvelous and what’s more it seemed never to change but always to pick up… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One is ejected into the world like a dirty little mummy; the roads are slippery with blood and no one knows why… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture killing and re-creating, death… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Death was more like what we went through in the park: two people walking side by side in the mist, rubbing against… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The ovarian world is the product of a life rhythm. The moment a child is born it becomes part of a world… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Why do we wear out so quickly, when the elements of which we are composed are indestructible? What is it that wears… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In a way, in a profound way, I mean, Christ was never pushed off the dead end. At the moment when he… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The life which, if i were still a man with pride, honor, ambition and so forth, would seem like the bottom rung… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I detest all books which run chronologically, which commence at the cradle and end with the grave. Even life doesn't run that… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The cancer of time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. The hero, then, is not… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“We came together in a dance of death and so quickly was I sucked down into the vortex that when I came… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Boris has just given me a summary of his views. He is a weather prophet. The weather will continue bad, he says.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Onward and away from the self, until the lat substantial particle of the soul be stretched to infinity. In her panic-stricken flight… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“To be sick, to be neurotic, if you like, is to ask for guarantees. The neurotic is the flounder that lies on… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Now when he closes his eyes he can really look at himself. He no longer sees a mask. He sees without seeing,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I reached out for something to attach myself to—and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
