Death Quotes by Henry Miller

“You have to die a human being to be reborn an individual.”

— Henry Miller

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

— Henry Miller

“I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want everyone to scratch himself to death.”

— Henry Miller

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

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with…

— Henry Miller

“The frantic desire to live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of…

— Henry Miller

“We came together in a dance of death and so quickly was I sucked down into the vortex that when I came…

— Henry Miller

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

“The cancer of time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves. The hero, then, is not…

— Henry Miller

Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus…

— Henry Miller

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires,…

— Henry Miller

The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death.…

— Henry Miller

“The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the…

— Henry Miller

“There are people in this world who cut such a grotesque figure that even death renders them ridiculous. And the more horrible…

— Henry Miller

“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

“One is ejected into the world like a dirty little mummy; the roads are slippery with blood and no one knows why…

— Henry Miller

“Boris has just given me a summary of his views. He is a weather prophet. The weather will continue bad, he says.…

— Henry Miller

“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

“There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of time is…

— Henry Miller

“At no time in the history of man has the world been so full of pain and anguish. Here and there, however,…

— Henry Miller

“To be sick, to be neurotic, if you like, is to ask for guarantees. The neurotic is the flounder that lies on…

— Henry Miller

I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is…

— Henry Miller

“The ovarian world is the product of a life rhythm. The moment a child is born it becomes part of a world…

— Henry Miller

“Death was more like what we went through in the park: two people walking side by side in the mist, rubbing against…

— Henry Miller

“In a way, in a profound way, I mean, Christ was never pushed off the dead end. At the moment when he…

— Henry Miller

“Now when he closes his eyes he can really look at himself. He no longer sees a mask. He sees without seeing,…

— Henry Miller

“Why do we wear out so quickly, when the elements of which we are composed are indestructible? What is it that wears…

— Henry Miller

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting…

— Henry Miller

There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time…

— Henry Miller

Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time…

— Henry Miller

“I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, for grander failures. I want the whole world to be out…

— Henry Miller

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

“For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years…

— Henry Miller

“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

To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture, killing and recreating, death…

— Henry Miller

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves…

— Henry Miller

“The life which, if i were still a man with pride, honor, ambition and so forth, would seem like the bottom rung…

— Henry Miller

“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

To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace…

— Henry Miller

...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like…

— Henry Miller