“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.”
— Henry Miller
“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything”
— Henry Miller
“I have found God, but he is insufficient.”
— Henry Miller
“Life’s wildest moment—she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.”
— Henry Miller
“Ik kwam er achter dat ik er mijn hele leven heus niet naar had verlang om te leven – als wat anderen doen tenminste leven genoemd kan worden – maar wel om mezelf te kunnen uitdrukken.”
— Henry Miller
“I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.”
— Henry Miller
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such”
— Henry Miller
“Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.”
— Henry Miller
“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
— Henry Miller
“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
— Henry Miller
“What’s a fuck when what I want is love?”
— Henry Miller
“The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.”
– Henry Miller
“Instead of asking ‘How much damage will the work in question bring about?’ why not ask ‘How much good? How much joy?’”
– Henry Miller
“Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.”
– Henry Miller
“What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?”
– Henry Miller
“True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.”
– Henry Miller
“If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.”
– Henry Miller
“Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.”
– Henry Miller
“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets – we remember only.”
– Henry Miller
“Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.”
– Henry Miller
“Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
– Henry Miller
“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
– Henry Miller
“The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”
– Henry Miller
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”
– Henry Miller
“Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.”
– Henry Miller
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
“The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.”
– Henry Miller
“The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.”
– Henry Miller
“Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.”
– Henry Miller
“In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.”
– Henry Miller