Soul Quotes by Henry Miller

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

— Henry Miller

Music is the can-opener of the soul.

— 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

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

— 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

I like the one about the little soulworms that fly out of the nest for the resurrection.

— 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

They were painfully clean. But inwardly they stank. Never once had they opened the door which leads to the soul; never once…

— Henry Miller

The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it…

— 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

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in…

— Henry Miller

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into…

— 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

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

“He’s like a hero come back from the war, a poor maimed bastard living out the reality of his dreams. Wherever he…

— Henry Miller

If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to…

— Henry Miller

There are moments when the elixir of life rises to such over−brimming splendor that the soul spills over. In the seraphic smile…

— 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

Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my…

— Henry Miller

I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills…

— Henry Miller

If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want…

— Henry Miller