“I had just made the realization that life is indestructible and that there is no such thing as time, only the present.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I wanted to die; I wanted to surrender because I saw no sense in struggling. I felt that nothing would be proved,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Life," said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“That’s the first thing that strikes an American woman about Europe – that it’s unsanitary. Impossible for them to conceive of a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And again that big, bushy thing of hers worked its bloom and magic. It began to have an independent existence for me… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free.… — 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
“And inevitably there always crept into our discussions the figure of Whitman, that one lone figure which America has produced in the… — 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
The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Again the dance hall, the money rhythm, the love that comes over the radio, the impersonal, wingless touch of the crowd. A… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The vast body of literature, in every domain, is composed of hand-me-down ideas. The question — never resolved, alas! — is to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I was born the 26th of December. . . Arrive by dint of perseverance, but step by step. . . Tenancy to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is… — 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
“In the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to come crashing… — 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
