Love Quotes by Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

— Henry Miller

“What's a fuck when what I want is love?”

— Henry Miller

“Maybe I only thought I was in love. Maybe I was simply hungry, lonely, a clay pigeon any one could put away…

— Henry Miller

“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.”

— Henry Miller

“It was just the human fatality of things, a cancer worse than blame, or hate or love.”

— Henry Miller

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has…

— Henry Miller

Next to love friendship, in my opinion, is the most valuable thing life has to offer.

— Henry Miller

“to love or be loved is no crime. the really criminal thing is to make a person believe that he or she…

— Henry Miller

“To make absolute, unconditional surrender to the woman one loves is to break every bond save the desire not to lose her,…

— Henry Miller

“I know we were conjugating the verb love like two maniacs trying to fuck through an iron gate.”

— Henry Miller

I think someday you're going to be a great writer," he said. "But" he added maliciously, "first you'll have to suffer a…

— Henry Miller

“I study you so much to discover the possible flaws, the weak points, the danger zones. I don’t find them—not any. That…

— Henry Miller

Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because…

— Henry Miller

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in…

— Henry Miller

If you can fall in love again and again if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from…

— Henry Miller

“One can live without friends, as one can live without love, or even without money, that supposed sine qua non. One can…

— Henry Miller

The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires,…

— Henry Miller

We must not just be in the world and above the world, but also of the world. To love it for what…

— Henry Miller

“Whoever, through too great love, which is monstrous after all, dies of his misery, is born again to know neither love nor…

— Henry Miller

“This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of…

— Henry Miller

“The Buddhas and the Christs are born complete. They neither seek love nor give love, because they are love itself. But we…

— Henry Miller

“And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap...it drives me nuts sometimes... I want…

— Henry Miller

“It was the end for me. And yet not an end. In all the years which have since elapsed she remains the…

— Henry Miller

“Not a single object seems to possess a practical use. The antechamber itself seems useless, a sort of vestibule to a barn,…

— Henry Miller

A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything…

— Henry Miller

Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes…

— Henry Miller

“I could put up with heartbreaks and abortions and busted romances, but I had to have something under my belt to carry…

— Henry Miller

“I was as definitely outside their world as a cannibal is outside the bounds of civilized society. I was filled with a…

— Henry Miller

“Anaïs, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips…

— Henry Miller

“Nothing can be given or taken away; nothing has been added or subtracted; nothing increased or diminished. We stand on the same…

— 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

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

— Henry Miller

“Don't expect me to be sane anymore. Don't let's be sensible. It was a marriage at Louveciennes—you can't dispute it. I came…

— Henry Miller

“How we hate to admit that we would like nothing better than to be the slave! Slave and master at the same…

— Henry Miller

“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another person, not with the mind, not even with the heart.”

— Henry Miller

“I understood then why it is that Paris attracts the tortured, the hallucinated, the great maniacs of love.”

— Henry Miller

The practice of any art demands more than 'mere savoir faire'. One must not only be in love with what one does,…

— Henry Miller

I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’t stop thinking about myself. It…

— Henry Miller

She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be…

— Henry Miller