Henry Miller Quotes
That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.
Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!
The sordid qualities imputed to the enemy are always those which we recognize as our own and therefore rise to slay, because only through projection do we realize the enormity and horror of them.
The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.
We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That's being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.
Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.
Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.
Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.
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 of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.
The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.
Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.
I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.
The poem is the dream made flesh, in a two-fold sense: as work of art, and as life, which is a work of art.
France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.
The only law which is really lived up to wholeheartedly and with a vengeance is the law of conformity.
Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded.
Your nearness is the nearness of planets. I am the void between you. If I withdraw there will be no void for you to swim in.
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.
But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.
When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.
The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.
Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven - als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden - maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.
One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.
I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf.
Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.
Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.
The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love.
It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least what it was to fail. I knew what it was to attempt something big.