Best Henry Miller Words
- When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it, or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. . . .… Admit
- To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts. Ghost
- The essential thing is to WANT to sing. This then is a song. I am singing. Essential
- The cradles of civilization are the putrid sinks of the world. Civilization
- They never opened the door which leads to the soul. Door
- You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life. Alley
- Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested… Alive
- Everything hinges on how you look at things Everything Hinges
- Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. Certainty
- Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one… Better
- Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world… Blowing
- What I really hoped for, no doubt, was to come upon one of those lives which begin nowhere, which lead us through marshes and salt… Begin
- No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ.… Asks
- My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into… Alive
- The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize… Cannot Possibly
- The smile was so painfully swift and fleeting that it was like the flash of a knife. Flash
- The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human. Human
- A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a… Ammunition
- Even the idiot may have a message for us Idiot
- I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must… Believe
- Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to… Accept
- I'm delirious because I'm dying so fast. Delirious
- One thing is certain, that when you die and are resurrected you belong to the earth and whatever is of the earth is yours inalienably.… Anomalies
- The city grows like a cancer; I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red; it is an insatiable… Cancer
- What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the public dance the… Beautifully
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