Truth Quotes by Henry Miller

“The word in your mouth is anarchy.”

— Henry Miller

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

— Henry Miller

I believe in saying the truth, coming out with it cold, shocking if necessary, not disguising it.

— Henry Miller

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

— Henry Miller

On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and…

— Henry Miller

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?

— Henry Miller

“One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.”

— Henry Miller

“Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.”

— Henry Miller

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

— Henry Miller

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I…

— Henry Miller

It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the…

— Henry Miller

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric…

— Henry Miller

“This was the sort of ebullience and élan I prayed for when I felt the desire to write. I used to sit…

— Henry Miller

“One doesn't want appreciation... one wants response. To tell you the truth, I don't know what I want of you, or of…

— Henry Miller

Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand…

— Henry Miller

If any man dared to translate all that is in his heart, to put down what is really his experience, what is…

— Henry Miller

I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is…

— Henry Miller

Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive…

— Henry Miller

“The creative life! Ascension. Passing beyond oneself. Rocketing out into the blue, grasping at flying ladders, mounting, soaring, lifting the world up…

— Henry Miller

“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the…

— Henry Miller

“The moral aspect was merely a concomitant, a coverall for some deeper, almost forgotten purpose. That histoire should be story, lie and…

— Henry Miller

“On the meridian of time there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and…

— Henry Miller