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Henry Miller Quotes - Page 2

All Quotes Acceptance Art Beauty Boredom Cancer Change Chaos Christ Consciousness Creation Creativity Crime Criticism Curiosity Death Destiny Dying Earth Eating Effort Ego Evil Falling In Love Fashion Fate Fear Feelings Funny Giving Giving Up Grace Gratitude Growth Happiness Hate Heart History Humanity Imagination Inspiration Inspirational Integrity Joy Life Literature Live Life Love Lying Music Nature Pain Passion Past Peace Perspective Philosophy Progress Purpose Reading Reality Running Silence Sin Singing Soul Spring Struggle Suffering Time Tragedy Travel Understanding Vision Waiting War Water Writing

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable

Lonely, Artist, Men

Henry Miller (1962). “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird”, p.49, New Directions Publishing

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

Nature, Men, Masters

Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.175, New Directions Publishing

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

Art, Teach, Significance

Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

Goal, Life Is, Life Goal

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

Gratitude, Time, Perspective

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

Everything hinges on how you look at things

Looks, Hinges

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation... The other eight are unimportant.

Funny, Sexy, Good Sex

Sexus ch. 21 (1949)

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.

Heart, Sunshine, Silence

Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

Inspirational, Lying, Book

Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.23, New Directions Publishing

Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.

Yesterday, Flags, Half

Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

Heaven, Found, Certainty

Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.192, New Directions Publishing

Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others.

Dedication, Giving

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Reality, Order And Chaos, Score

Henry Miller, John Calder (1985). “A Henry Miller reader”, Riverrun Pr

The earth is not a lair, neither is it a prison. The earth is a Paradise, the only one we'll ever know. We will realize it the moment we open our eyes. We don't have to make it a Paradise-it is one. We have only to make ourselves fit to inhabit it. The man with the gun, the man with murder in his heart, cannot possibly recognize Paradise even when he is shown it.

Eye, Heart, Gun

If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Travel, Anchors, Tourism

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

Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need morals, it needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer.

Beer, Men, Thinking

The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good & bad, right & wrong, yours & mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis.

Art, Good Life, Acceptance

Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

Integrity, Commitment, Fate

Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

We have been educated to such a fine - or dull - point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

Criticism, Dull, Way

Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.166, New Directions Publishing

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Inspirational, Courage, Dark

Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Fear, Inspiration, Giving

Henry Miller (1972). “The Henry Miller reader”, Ayer Co Pub

It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.

Brother, Liars, Integrity

There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

Perspective, World, Way

Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.351, New Directions Publishing

We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Fate, Training, Suffering

Henry Miller (1957). “Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch”, p.325, New Directions Publishing

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

Kings, Men, Profound

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

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