Ennui Quotes by Henry Miller

“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

“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.”

— Henry Miller

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

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

— Henry Miller

“(...)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

“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

“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

“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

Paint what you like and die happy

— Henry Miller

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

“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.”

— Henry Miller

“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

“Since then, of course, I have discovered what every madman in Paris discovers sooner of later; that there are no ready made infernos for…

— Henry Miller

“Looking back upon my career, I see myself as a person capable of undertaking almost any task, any vocation. It was the monotony and…

— Henry Miller

“The word in your mouth is anarchy.”

— Henry Miller