Men Quotes by Henry Miller

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

— Henry Miller

In every man's heart there is anchored a little schooner.

— Henry Miller

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

— Henry Miller

History is the myth, the true myth, of man's fall made manifest in time.

— Henry Miller

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

— Henry Miller

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

— Henry Miller

No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.

— Henry Miller

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

— Henry Miller

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough…

— Henry Miller

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human,…

— 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

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls…

— Henry Miller

The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a…

— 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

Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of…

— Henry Miller

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in…

— Henry Miller

There are no "facts"- there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world, is on his way to…

— Henry Miller

All the lies and evasions by which man has nourished himself civilization, in a word is the fruits of the creative artist.…

— Henry Miller

The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on…

— Henry Miller

When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of…

— Henry Miller

The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he…

— Henry Miller

Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middle-class men and woman who are stuck in their…

— Henry Miller

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made…

— Henry Miller

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so…

— Henry Miller

When I think of New York I have a very different feeling. New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance.…

— Henry Miller

Often, when following the trail which meanders over the hills, I pull myself up in an effort to encompass the glory and…

— Henry Miller

You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not…

— Henry Miller

For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years…

— 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

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

— Henry Miller

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind,…

— Henry Miller

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in…

— Henry Miller

Man, as man, has never realized himself. The greater part of him, his potential being, has always been submerged. What is history…

— Henry Miller

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

— Henry Miller

The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with…

— Henry Miller

This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit…

— Henry Miller

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other,…

— Henry Miller

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the…

— Henry Miller

A man of good will with a little effort and belief in his own powers can enjoy a deep, tranquil, rich life…

— Henry Miller

The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose…

— Henry Miller