Henry Miller Quotes

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

I'm not frightened about death. I don't know why, but I just feel that at a certain moment your switch is switched off, and that's it. And you can't do anything about it.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

I don't fear death. If it happens, it was meant to happen.

there is nothing to be done. only accept it... and hurt.

Shaw, we're going to die, aren't we?" Probably. Why?" Just wanted confirmation.

Things just happen. What the hell.

Is that all?" she whispered. Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.

...this is the way fate usually treats us, it's right there behind us, it has already reached out a hand to touch us on the shoulder while we're still muttering to ourselves, It's all over, that's it, who cares anyhow.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war.

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

You can't be scared of death. When that time comes, it comes.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

Of course, we avoid death. To know something is inevitable is one thing. To accept, to truly feel it... that's different.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

And that’s the way it is

It’s over, and can’t be helped, and that’s one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, ven they cut the wrong man’s head off.

What the hell, it doesn’t make any difference. Have a drink.