“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
“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in… — 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
“The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Yeah, I picked up a book and I read. You can get something out of a book, even a bad book ...… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“When one spends what he has on himselef, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“But that was a long time ago and since then a crab has been gnawing at my vitals. All this began in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It is the great mass of mankind, the mob, the people, who create the permanently bad times. The world is only the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I was alive. But I was alive without a memory, without a name; I was cut off from hope as well as… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Every time I pass the concierge's window and catch the full icy impact of her glance I have an insane desire to… — 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… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I couldn't allow myself to think about her very long; if I had I would have jumped off the bridge. It's strange.… — 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
The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There are moments when the elixir of life rises to such over−brimming splendor that the soul spills over. In the seraphic smile… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One can wait a whole lifetime for a moment like this. The woman whom you never hoped to meet now sits before… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I wandered aimlessly through this muddy lane bespattered with blood, fragments of the past detached themselves and floated listlessly before my eyes,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“To imagine a new world is to live it daily, each thought, each glance, each step, each gesture killing and re-creating, death… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“A man should begin with his own times. He should become acquainted first of all with the world in which he is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Anaïs, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“What strikes me now as the most wonderful proof of my fitness, or unfitness, for the times is the fact that nothing… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“One never thinks of China, but it is there all the time on the tips of your fingers and it makes your… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“To move forward clinging to the past is like dragging a ball and chain. The prisoner is not the one who has… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Why do we wear out so quickly, when the elements of which we are composed are indestructible? What is it that wears… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I had no time to make a world of my own. I had to stay fixed, like Atlas, my feet on the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the moment all is dear to me, dear that in this logic there is no redemption, the city itself being the… — 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… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“There’s something obscene in this love of the past which ends in breadlines and dugouts. Something obscene about this spiritual racket which… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Each one is traveling his own way ad though the earth be rotting with good things, there is no time to pluck… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“give you a nostalgia for a people and a soil you have never known, but which is in your blood, mysteriously there… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The world is a cancer eating itself away... I am think that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music… — 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