Top 20 Henry Miller Quotes And Sayings
Henry Valentine Miller (26 December 1891 – 7 June 1980) was an American writer.
Below's Top 20 Henry Miller Quotes And Sayings.
Henry Miller Quotes
1. The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
― Henry Miller
2. I have found God, but he is insufficient.
― Henry Miller
3. The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
― Henry Miller
4. 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
5. One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
― Henry Miller
6. If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is truly his truth, I think then the world would go to smash, that it would be blown to smithereens and no god, no accident, no will could ever again assemble the pieces, the atoms, the indestructible elements that have gone to make up the world.
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
7. 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.
― Henry Miller
8. Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
― Henry Miller
9. Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
― Henry Miller
10. A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there, that of the pulse, the heart beat.
― Henry Miller
11. Day by day. No yesterdays and no tomorrows. The barometer never changes, the flag is always at half-mast.
― Henry Miller
12. What we all hope in reaching for a book, is to meet a man of our own heart, to experience tragedies and delights which we ourselves lack the courage to invite, to dream dreams which will render life more hallucinating, perhaps also to discover a philosophy of life which will make us more adequate in meeting the trials and ordeals which beset us. To merely add to our store of knowledge or improve our culture, whatever that may mean, seems worthless to me.
― Henry Miller
13. No man ever puts down what he intended to say... words... are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.
― Henry Miller
14. Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.
― Henry Miller
15. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
― Henry Miller
16. To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
― Henry Miller
17. I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
― Henry Miller
18. Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
― Henry Miller
19. I used to think a bird couldn't fly if its wings got wet.
― Henry Miller
20. The thing is to become a master, and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.
― Henry Miller
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