Quotes by Henry Miller

“Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his ...”

“This was the sort of ebullience and lan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit down and wait for this to happen. But it never did happen- not this way. It happened afterwards, ...”

“Tomorrow is no hazardous affair, a day like any other day: tomorrow is the result of many yesterdays and comes with a potent, cumulative effect. I am tomorrow what I chose to be yesterday and the d...”

“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouthI count that something of a miracle.”

“I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.”

“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.”

“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant”

“I am fucking you, Tania, so that you'll stay fucked.”

“And her delicacy offended. Who wants a delicate whore! Claude would even ask you to turn your face away when she squatted over the bidet. All wrong! A man, when he's burning up with passion, wants ...”

“literature coming from the cold corpse of a whore is the last thing to be served in bed.”

“The night I sat down to read Dostoievski for the first time was a most important event in my life, even more important than my first love. It was the first deliberate, conscious act which had signi...”

“Words are loneliness.”

“No man ever puts down what he intended to say... words... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.”

“The word in your mouth is anarchy.”

“And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them awa...”

“Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.”

“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.”

“To paint is to love again, live again, see again. To get up at the crack of dawn in order to take a peek at the water colors one did the day before, or even a few hours before, is like stealing a l...”

“Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.”

“We came together in a dance of death and so quickly was I sucked down into the vortex that when I came to the surface again I couldn't recognize the world. When I found myself loose the music had c...”