Henry Miller Quotes About Vision

Quotes about: Vision

• Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

  Henry Miller

  Gratitude, Time, Perspective

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

• Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

• One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

  Positive, Travel, Attitude

  Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.25, New Directions Publishing

• Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

  Henry Miller

  Death, Spiritual, Unknown Worlds

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

• Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue to create gods who will destroy him. The tragedy of Greece lies not in the destruction of a great culture but in the abortion of a great vision.

  Henry Miller

  Lying, Men, Abortion

• When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Men, Paris

• There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our st idity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.

  Henry Miller

  Powerful, Ideas, Vision

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, p.169, New Directions Publishing

• I saw through to the last sign and symbol, but I could not read her face. I could see only the eyes shining through, huge, fleshy-like luminous beasts, as though I were swimming behind them in the electric effluvia of her incandescent vision.

  Henry Miller

  Eye, Swimming, Shining

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

• The learning we received only tended to obscure our vision. From the day we went to school we learned nothing; on the contrary, we were made obtuse, we were wrapped in a fog of words and abstractions.

  Henry Miller

  School, Fog, Vision

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

• The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Artist, Men

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

• Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Pain, Writing

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

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