Henry Miller idézet

„Abban a pillanatban, hogy az ember nagy figyelmet szentel bárminek, akár egy fűszálnak is, az önmagában egy titokzatos, bámulat keltő és leírhatatlanul csodálatos világgá válik.”

“Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.”

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”

“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.”

“The real leader has no need to lead. He is content to point the way.”

“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.”

“Everywhere I go people are making a mess of their lives. Everyone has his private tragedy. It's in the blood now - misfortune, ennui, grief, suicide. The atmosphere is saturated with disaster, frustration, futility. Scratch and scratch, until there's no skin left. However, the effect upon me is exhilarating. Instead of being discouraged or depressed, I enjoy it. I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want every one to scratch himself to death.”

“Words are loneliness.”

“I found that what I had desired all my life was not to live - if what others are doing is called living - but to express myself.”

“All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.”

“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”

“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”

“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.”

“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”

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

“To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”

“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”

“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.”

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”

“I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.”

“The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.”

“Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.”

“I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.”

“Whoever uses the spirit that is
in him creatively is an artist. To
make living itself an art, that is
the goal.”

“We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.”

“Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.”

“The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.”