Games
All emojis
New
Quotes
Home
»
Quote
»
Henry Miller
Quotes
„Vlaminck and Utrillo were very good friends, drinking buddies. One day they attend a funeral. They’re walking behind the hearse in a procession, and they’re having a great time conversing with one another. They are completely engrossed when suddenly one asks the other, ‘Say, don’t you smell something funny?’ They look up and they’re walking behind a garbage truck! They’d lost the hearse in the middle of their enthusiastic conversation.“
„I soon learned that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that one must write write write.“
„Political leaders are never leaders. For leaders we have to look to the Awakeners! Lao Tse, Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Milarepa, Gurdjiev, Krishnamurti.“
„If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.“
„To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.“
„To walk in money through the night crowd, protected by money, lulled by money, dulled by money, the crowd itself a money, the breath money, no least single object anywhere that is not money, money, money everywhere and still not enough, and then no money or a little money or less money or more money, but money, always money, and if you have money or you don’t have money it is the money that counts and money makes money, but what makes money make money?“
„Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.“
„The frantic desire to Live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of the death rhythm.“
„Sleep, Napoleon! It was not your ideas they wanted, it was your corpse.“
„The history of the world is the history of a privileged few.“
„There was one artist who wrote as beautifully as he painted. That was Hokusai – He speaks for all artists, whether they are painters or not. [He wrote]: “I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was fifty, but really nothing I did before the age of seventy was of any value at all. At seventy three I have at last caught every aspect of nature-birds, fish, animals, insects, trees, grasses, all. When I am eighty I shall have developed still further. And I will really master the secrets of art at ninety. When I reach a hundred my work will be truly sublime, and my final goal will be attained around the age of one hundred and ten, when every line and dot I draw will be imbued with life.”“
„The whole damn universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed.“
„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 been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens.“
„The man who doesn’t respond to music, the man without music in his soul is not to be trusted. A man like that is cold and empty, empty to the core.“
„This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty … what you will.“
„A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in….“
„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. I need sunshine and paving tones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself with only the music of my heart for company. What do you want of me? When I have something to say, I put it in print. When I have something to give, I give it. Your prying curiosity turns my stomach! Your compliments humiliate me. Your tea poisons me! I owe nothing to anyone, I would’ve responsible to God alone-if he exited!“
„The Gnostics thought the planet Earth was a cosmic mistake. I too feel that way — I’m through with this Earth before I’ve even departed from it.“
„More than anything the French have a profound knowledge of the ways of life. They possess a tolerance and an acceptance of the way things are. Problems are faced with intelligence, patience, and a sense of humanity. I have more respect for them than any other nationality on the face of the earth.“
„A guy who’s always interested in the condition of the world, and changing it, either has no problems of his own, or refuses to face them… not wanting to face things of his own nature.“
1
2
…
8
9
>