Henry Miller Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Order And Chaos, Score

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

• Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to the world of illusion, which is the name for everyday life.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Names, Everyday

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• 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

  Memories, Ocean, Sleep

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

• I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

  Henry Miller

  Fashion, Ocean, Reality

• The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decoration; it is essential that only the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty that has us by the balls in America, is finished.

  Henry Miller

  Fall, Reality, Men

• When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Chaos, Womb

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

• Reality is not protected or defended by laws, proclamations, ukases, cannons and armadas. Reality is that which is sprouting all the time out of death and disintegration.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Law, Cannons

  Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

• Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Swim, Frightened

  Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.44, New Directions Publishing

• 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

  Fear, Reality, Tragedy

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.335, New Directions Publishing

• It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones, as much or more as from others. If we have not yet succeeded -after how many centuries?- in eliminating from life the elements which plague us perhaps we need to question life more closely. Perhaps our refusal to face reality is the only ill we suffer from, and all the rest but illusion and delusion. (p.26)

  Henry Miller

  Reality, Destiny, Suffering

• For some reason or other man looks for the miracle, and to accomplish it he will wade through blood. He will debauch himself with ideas, he will reduce himself to a shadow if for only one second of his life he can close his eyes to the hideousness of reality. 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

  Fear, War, Eye

  Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

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