Henry Miller Quotes

When you surrender, the problem ceases to exist. Try to solve it,or conquer it, and you only set up more resistance. I am very certain now that, as I said therein, if I truly become what I wish to be, the burden will fall away. The most difficult thing to admit, and to realize with one’s whole being, is that you alone control nothing.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

When you get an erection you think you're passionate.

When you can't create, you can work.

When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.

When one spends what he has on himselef, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say "he doesn't know what to do with his money.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

When I look down into this fucked out cunt of a whore I feel the whole world beneath me, a world tottering and crumbling, a world used up and polished like a leper's skull.

When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.

When a desperate, hungry spirit appears and makes the guinea pigs squeal it is because he knows where to put the live wire of sex, because he knows that beneath the hard carapace of indifference there is concealed the ugly gash, the wound that never heals.

What's a fuck when what I want is love?

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.