Life Quotes by Henry Miller

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

— Henry Miller

The purpose of life is to remember.

— Henry Miller

The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

— Henry Miller

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

— Henry Miller

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

— Henry Miller

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.

— Henry Miller

“Life was a perpetual black fuck about a fixed pole of insomnia.”

— Henry Miller

To make living itself an art, that is the goal.

— Henry Miller

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security,…

— Henry Miller

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

— Henry Miller

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

— Henry Miller

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

— Henry Miller

“Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses.”

— Henry Miller

The most difficult thing to adjust to, apparently, is peace and contentment.

— Henry Miller

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

— Henry Miller

'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but…

— Henry Miller

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric…

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

Many is the mirage I chased. Always I was overreaching myself. The oftener I touched reality, the harder I bounced back to…

— Henry Miller

“That’s the first thing that strikes an American woman about Europe – that it’s unsanitary. Impossible for them to conceive of a…

— Henry Miller

“And again that big, bushy thing of hers worked its bloom and magic. It began to have an independent existence for me…

— Henry Miller

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than…

— Henry Miller

“Life," said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but…

— Henry Miller

And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I…

— Henry Miller

Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life…

— Henry Miller

When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos…

— Henry Miller

The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very…

— Henry Miller

“The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the…

— Henry Miller

We are all guilty of crime the great crime of not living life to the full. But we are all potentially free.…

— Henry Miller

“And inevitably there always crept into our discussions the figure of Whitman, that one lone figure which America has produced in the…

— Henry Miller

The art of living is based on rhythm - on give & take, ebb & flow, light & dark, life & death.…

— Henry Miller

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a…

— Henry Miller

“The ovarian world is the product of a life rhythm. The moment a child is born it becomes part of a world…

— Henry Miller

There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is…

— Henry Miller

“I was born the 26th of December. . . Arrive by dint of perseverance, but step by step. . . Tenancy to…

— Henry Miller

“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life…

— Henry Miller

“The vast body of literature, in every domain, is composed of hand-me-down ideas. The question — never resolved, alas! — is to…

— Henry Miller

“Again the dance hall, the money rhythm, the love that comes over the radio, the impersonal, wingless touch of the crowd. A…

— Henry Miller

“The creative artist has something in common with the hero. Though functioning on another plane, he too believes that he has solutions…

— Henry Miller

“The creative life! Ascension. Passing beyond oneself. Rocketing out into the blue, grasping at flying ladders, mounting, soaring, lifting the world up…

— Henry Miller