The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure. — 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
Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I demanded a realm in which I should be both master and slave at the same time: The world of art is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a… — 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 nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it. — 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
At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years… — 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
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
I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There are no "facts"- there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world, is on his way to… — 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
