Quote

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now.

Henry Miller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
Writer
New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
Men
Corners
Fiend
Beyond
Inanimate
Turn
Bundle
Dark
Bundles
Turns
Escaping
Fear
Description
Congeal
Become
Corner
Torturing
Soul
Torture
Anesthesia

More quotes by Henry Miller

Image
Greece is the home of the gods they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.
Henry Miller
Image
Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.
Henry Miller
Image
There is nothing in itself which is wrong or evil not even murder.
Henry Miller
Image
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in it, anything that is capable of resuscitating the body and the soul.
Henry Miller
Image
Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Henry Miller
Image
Writing is its own reward.
Henry Miller
Image
It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris.
Henry Miller
Image
Cluster together like stars!
Henry Miller
Image
Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is like an ocean in which everything is washed away but that which is new and more substantial even than life - reality.
Henry Miller
Image
I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.
Henry Miller
Image
I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Henry Miller
Image
Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.
Henry Miller
Image
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
Henry Miller
Image
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.
Henry Miller
Image
You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
Henry Miller
Image
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.
Henry Miller
Image
A world without hope, but no despair
Henry Miller
Image
It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
Henry Miller
Image
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Henry Miller
Image
To make living itself an art, that is the goal.
Henry Miller