Dreams Quotes by Henry Miller

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

— Henry Miller

The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work…

— 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 act of dreaming, like a draught of fresh air in an abandoned house, situates the furniture of the mind in a…

— Henry Miller

“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.”

— Henry Miller

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls…

— Henry Miller

Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue…

— Henry Miller

“a lucid french idea that gauges right through your drunkenness and leaves you swimming helplessly in the past, in a fluid dream…

— Henry Miller

The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the…

— Henry Miller

Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,…

— Henry Miller

I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes…

— Henry Miller

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a…

— Henry Miller

“I am a man who would live an heroic life and make the world more endurable in his own sight. If, in…

— Henry Miller

The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those…

— Henry Miller

“One can wait a whole lifetime for a moment like this. The woman whom you never hoped to meet now sits before…

— Henry Miller

“He’s like a hero come back from the war, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams. Wherever he…

— Henry Miller

“More and more the world resembles an entomologist's dream. The earth is moving out of its orbit, the axis has shifted; from…

— Henry Miller

“The dreamers dream from the neck up, their bodies securely strapped to the electric chair. To imagine a new world is to…

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“Christ will never more come down to earth nor will there be any law-giver, nor will murder cease nor theft, nor rape,…

— Henry Miller

“In the moment all is dear to me, dear that in this logic there is no redemption, the city itself being the…

— Henry Miller