Henry Miller Quotes

And I am left behind Corrupted crushed and blind All for a dream That in truth was never really mine.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

False hope really makes you cynical.

Despair is the only cure for illusion.

The despondency that follows makes me feel somewhat like a shipwrecked man who spies a sail, sees himself saved, and suddenly remembers that the lens of his spyglass has a flaw, a blurred spot -- the sail he has seen.

I’ve lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that’s left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.

No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises.

I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of.

Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

Hope, how she had grown to hate the word. It was an insideious seed planted inside a person's soul, surviving covertly on little tending, then flowering so spectacularly that none could help but cherish it.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

We all get discouraged.

I was very bitter, frustrated, hurt, angry - I went through all types of emotions when I first was out of the WNBA.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.