True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Quote by Henry Miller
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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
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Henry Miller Quotes
- An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
- No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
- The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
- No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.
- Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
- The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
- We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
- 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.
- In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
Best Quotes
- I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.
- Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
- No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
- Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.
- In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.
- All my friends' mothers were appalling women.
- Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
- Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
- A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.