In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Quote by Henry Miller

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it...

There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it...

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our...

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our...

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from...

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from...

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American...

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American...

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad...

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad...

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not...

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not...

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things...

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things...

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who...

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who...

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at...

The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at...

My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the...

My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the...

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the...

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the...

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast...

There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast...

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a...

It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a...

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather...

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather...

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor...

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor...

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music -...

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music -...

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced...

Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced...