Mind Quotes by Henry Miller

I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.

— Henry Miller

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

— Henry Miller

The waking mind, you see, is the least serviceable in the arts.

— Henry Miller

The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

— Henry Miller

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the…

— Henry Miller

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order…

— Henry Miller

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets -…

— Henry Miller

What seems nasty, painful, evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind.

— Henry Miller

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is…

— Henry Miller

Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you…

— Henry Miller

The word civilization to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting…

— Henry Miller

“...and with that he began to laugh, not a laugh either, but a cackle, a hideous cackle like a rooster with its…

— Henry Miller

Perhaps I have not lined his portrait too clearly. But if he exists, if only for the reason that I have imagined…

— Henry Miller

“Nothing happens in the brain, except the gradual rust and detrition of the cells. But in the mind, worlds unclassified, undenominated, unassimilated,…

— Henry Miller

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would be realize…

— Henry Miller

“He will never be satisfied,” writes one biographer...I know because I suffer from the same disease...I don't believe for a minute that…

— Henry Miller