Henry Miller Quotes

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

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:love heart

“I sit down beside her and she talks—a flood of talk. Wild consumptive notes of hysteria, perversion, leprosy. I hear not a word because she is beautiful and I love her and now I am happy and willing to die.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:love happiness talking

“What's a fuck when what I want is love?”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

topic:love

“Let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance. But a dance!”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:life

“The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

topic:life humanity

“Everything is endured—disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui—in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:life belief

“I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:life death

“There are people in this world who cut such a grotesque figure that even death renders them ridiculous. And the more horrible the death the more ridiculous they seem.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:death

“There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of time is eating us away.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:death time

“I am crying for more and more disasters, for bigger calamities, for grander failures. I want the whole world to be out of whack, I want everyone to scratch himself to death.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:death world

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