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
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
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I can never go back on what I've written. If it was not good, it was true; if it was not artistic,… — 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
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
“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
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
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. — 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
I thought, when I came upon her, that I was seizing hold of life... Instead I lost hold of life completely. I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium,… — 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
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
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
For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch… — 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
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
