Henry Miller Quotes

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on.

It's so easy to get caught up in this weird life. This isn't normal and I'm not singing for people that live my life. I'm singing to the life I used to have. The life I want to have again.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

Are some women and children going to die? Yeah. But it's doing the right thing. You got money, you sit around talking about peace. People who don't have money need some help.

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.

There is a universal fascination with the living dead. There is more to a zombie story that a bunch of corpses attacking the living. The real power of such a story lies with the undercurrent of hopelessness compounded by a very real instinct to survive.

We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an’ death's the other.

When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Winston, who has got on all his war-paint, is longing for a sea battle in the early hours of tomorrow morning… The whole thing fills me with sadness.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

Many of the young people living in inner-city America don't see themselves - I mean, they even talk about things like death and dying. And there's a tremendous loss of hope. And of all the things to lose, I think nothing is worse or more difficult to overcome than the loss of hope.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

He seemed to be waiting for a miracle to save him from the depths his life had reached and take him to a land of dreams.