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
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. — 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 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
“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 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
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
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 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
“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
“(...) 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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Still I can't get it out of my mind what a discrepancy there is between ideas and living. A permanent dislocation, though… — 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
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
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life. — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
