Best Henry Miller Proverbs
- I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing. Expect
- The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want… Created
- I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but… All
- To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy, thoroughly and completely… Completely
- Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy… Aim
- Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself! Demanded
- We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown. All
- I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet. Bird
- If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more.… Aim
- For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter. Adventure
- America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed… America
- As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance. Human
- The best stories I have heard were pointless, the best books those whose plot I can never remember, the best individuals those whom I never… Anywhere
- When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into… Abyss
- I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion;… Alone
- Things happen or they don't happen, that's all. Nothing is accomplished by sweat and struggle. Nearly everything which we call life is just insomnia, an… Accomplished
- I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet… Calmly
- By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves. Choosing
- That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life. Cannot Rise
- I wanted to feel the blood running back into my veins, even at the cost of annihilation. I wanted to shake the stone and light… Annihilation
- I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing… Alone
- At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love―just enough to feed the birds. Bird
- Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More… Appear
- From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life… Activity
- There's something perverse about women...they're all masochists at heart. All
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