The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security,… — 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
“The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Even if one’s whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself! — 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
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. In this state… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Surrealism is merely the reflection of the death process. It is one of the manifestations of a life becoming extinct, a virus… — 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
“Heroism and obscenity appear no more important in the life of the universe than the fighting or mating of a pair of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I thought I had found a living volcano, a female Vesuvius. I never thought of a human ship going down in an… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One is ejected into the world like a dirty little mummy; the roads are slippery with blood and no one knows why… — 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
“I am a religious man without a religion. I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence . . . call it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“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 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
“I am a man who would live an heroic life and make the world more endurable in his own sight. If, in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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
“There is a theory that when a planet, like our earth for example, has manifested every form of life, when it has… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The way of life is towards fulfillment, however, wherever it may lead. To restore a human being to the current of life… — 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
“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Naturally, I said. You’re always the same person. You don’t change from one milieu to another. You’re honest and open. You could get… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Now when he closes his eyes he can really look at himself. He no longer sees a mask. He sees without seeing,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Still I can't get it out of my mind what a discrepancy there is between ideas and living. A permanent dislocation, though… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The frantic desire to live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. — 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
