Quotes from Henry Miller

At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love—just enough to feed the birds.

Can you stop dead, and without thinking, radiate the truth which you know?

Ninguna luna plateará nunca su apatía.

A weird sort of contentment in those days. No appointments, no invitations for dinner, no program, no dough. The golden period, when I had not a single friend.

Tampoco seré esposa. Joder, ya es bastante difícil ser mujer. ¡Detesto a las mujeres! Todas son unos bichos, hasta las mejores. Yo seré lo que soy: alguien que interpreta el papel de mujer.

It seems to me that everything dates from that aborted affair.

Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action

Pues sólo existe una gran aventura y es hacia adentro, hacia uno mismo, y para esa ni el tiempo ni el espacio, ni los actos siquiera, importan.

I would like to suffocate with grief but instead I give birth to a rock.

I will sing while you croak.

Estaba convencido de que, si las cosas me salían mal, a todo el mundo le salían mal. Y, por lo general, las cosas salían mal sólo cuando te preocupabas demasiado.

I can never forget that Chinese student I knew in Paris - Mr. Tcheou, I think it was. One day, upon asking him if he had ever read Hamlet , he answered: You mean that novel by Jack London?

Life will continue to be a hell as long as the people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality. Switching from one ideology to another is a useless game.

Out of nothingness arises the sign of infinity; beneath the ever-rising spirals slowly sinks the gaping hole. The land and the water make numbers joined, a poem written with flesh and stronger than steel or granite. Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown…

Za sto sluzat knigite ako ne ne vrajkaat kon zivotot, ako ne uspevaat vo toa da ne nateraat da ja izgasneme zedta so pogolema alcnost.

What we don't want to face, what we don't want to hear or listen to, whether it be nonsense, treason or sacrilege, are precisely the things we must give heed to. Even the idiot may have a message for us. Maybe I am one of those idiots. But I will have my say.

In a world grown paralyzed with introspection and constipated by delicate mental meals this brutal exposure of the substantial body comes as a vitalizing current of blood. The violence and obscenity are left unadulterated, as manifestation of the mystery and pain which ever accompanies the act of creation.

Are we not all victims of fear and anxiety precisely because we lack faith and trust in one another?

The book is sustained on its own axis by the pure flux and rotation of events. Just as there is no central point, so also there is no question of heroism or of struggle since there is no question of will, but only an obedience to flow.

Jesus made a number of explicit statements, injunctions really. All to the effect that one was to take no thought but to respond immediately to any appeal for aid. And to respond in large measure. To give your cloak as well as your coat, to walk two miles and not one. And as we know well, with these injunctions went another, more important one—to return good for evil. "Resist not evil!

Vivir sus deseos, agotarlos en la vida, es el destino de toda existencia.

La mayor parte de la escritura se hace lejos de la máquina de escribir.

I can never go back on what I've written. If it was not good, it was true; if it was not artistic, it was sincere; if it was in bad taste, it was on the side of life.

There are evidences of a very great art in Europe as long as twenty-five thousand years ago, and in Egypt as far back as sixty thousand years. Money had nothing to to do with the production of these treasures. Money will have nothing to do with the art of the future.