I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called… — 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
Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I used to think then that all the tragic events of life were written down in books and that what went on… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Destiny Is What You Are Supposed To Do In Life. Fate Is What Kicks You In The Ass To Make You Do… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over… — 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 life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“(...) all my life I had been looking forward for something happening, some intrinsic event that would alter my life, and now… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a… — 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
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It is getting toward dinner time and people are straggling back to their rooms with that weary, dejected air which comes from… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“At that moment I rejoiced that I was free of possessions, free of all·ties, free of fear and envy and malice. I… — 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… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“...the art of living involves the act of creation. The work of art is nothing. It is only the tangible, visible evidence… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“All the men she's been with and now you, just you, and the barges going by, masts and hulls, the whole damned… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“All my life I have felt a great kinship with the madman and the criminal. Practically all my life I have dwelt… — 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
“If at eighty you're not a cripple or an invalid, if you have your health, if you still enjoy a good walk,… — 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… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I look out again at the sun-my first full gaze. It is blood-red and men are walking about on rooftops. Everything above… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“How we hate to admit that we would like nothing better than to be the slave! Slave and master at the same… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“But it is not emancipation that the great majority seeks. When pressed, most men will admit that it takes but little to… — 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
Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You start out with the sublime and you end up in an alley jerking away for dear life. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Life said Emerson, "consists of what a man is thinking all day."If that be so, than my life is nothing but a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A child has no need to write, he is innocent. A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated… — 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
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
“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
