Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You can look at things all your life and not see them really. This ‘seeing’ is, in a way, a ‘not seeing,’… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The creative life! Ascension. Passing beyond oneself. Rocketing out into the blue, grasping at flying ladders, mounting, soaring, lifting the world up… — 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
Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from… — 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
“I was born the 26th of December. . . Arrive by dint of perseverance, but step by step. . . Tenancy to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There are moments when the elixir of life rises to such over−brimming splendor that the soul spills over. In the seraphic smile… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The art, the art of living, involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life… — 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 age demands violence, but we are getting only abortive explosions. Revolutions are nipped in the bud, or else succeed too quickly.… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is… — 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
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Fear, hydra-headed fear, which is rampant in all of us, is a hang-over from lower forms of life. We are straddling two… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Whoever, through too great love, which is monstrous after all, dies of his misery, is born again to know neither love nor… — 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
“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
