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
'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
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
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
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
...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like… — 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
If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want… — 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
“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
