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
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
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
“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
'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
Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment. — 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
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
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
Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It… — 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
Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding 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
“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
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 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 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
“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I was born the 26th of December. . . Arrive by dint of perseverance, but step by step. . . Tenancy to… — 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
“The ovarian world is the product of a life rhythm. The moment a child is born it becomes part of a world… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Again the dance hall, the money rhythm, the love that comes over the radio, the impersonal, wingless touch of the crowd. A… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The vast body of literature, in every domain, is composed of hand-me-down ideas. The question — never resolved, alas! — is to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest. — 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
And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I… — 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
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
“And again that big, bushy thing of hers worked its bloom and magic. It began to have an independent existence for me… — 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
