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Away Quotes by Henry Miller
- Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end.
- You start with the sublime and end up in an alley jerking away for dear life.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.…
- For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has…
- There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us…
- The cancer of time is eating us away
- To love! To surrender absolutely, to prostrate oneself before the divine image, to die a thousand imaginary deaths, to annihilate every trace of self, to…
- There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies.…
- Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize it, than to…
More Away Quotes
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups. — Margaret Atwood
- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius