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
“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 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
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
“...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
“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
“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
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 the days to come, when it will seem as if I were entombed, when the very firmament threatens to come crashing… — 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
You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life. — 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
“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
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
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
“(...)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
“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
“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
“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
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
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share
“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
“Since then, of course, I have discovered what every madman in Paris discovers sooner of later; that there are no ready made infernos for… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“Looking back upon my career, I see myself as a person capable of undertaking almost any task, any vocation. It was the monotony and… — Henry Miller Copy Share
