Giving Quotes by Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

I don't think we should read for instruction but to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

— Henry Miller

At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I…

— Henry Miller

We're creators by permission, by grace as it were. No one creates alone, of and by himself. An artist is an instrument…

— Henry Miller

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can…

— Henry Miller

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like…

— Henry Miller

Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not…

— Henry Miller

Giving and receiving are at bottom one thing, dependent on whether one lives open or closed. Living openly one becomes a medium,…

— Henry Miller

To be silent the whole day long, see no newspaper, hear no radio, listen to no gossip, be thoroughly and completely lazy,…

— Henry Miller

I will never again go to people under false pretenses even if it is to give them the Holy Bible. I will…

— Henry Miller

I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my…

— Henry Miller

What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and operas the…

— Henry Miller

“No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end…

— Henry Miller

Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from…

— Henry Miller

A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit,…

— Henry Miller

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way,…

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

The vast difference between astrology and other sciences, if I may put it thus, is that astrology deals not with facts but…

— Henry Miller

I had to learn, as I soon did, that one must give up everything and not do anything else but write, that…

— Henry Miller