We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Everything American will disappear one day. More completely than that which was Greek, or Roman, or Egyptian. This is one of the… — 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
“At no time in the history of man has the world been so full of pain and anguish. Here and there, however,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
What I secretly longed for was to disentangle myself of all those lives which had woven themselves into the pattern of my… — 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
