Best Henry Miller Sayings
- Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously. Beautiful
- One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. Act
- The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts. Architecture
- We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. Chance
- I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. Always Looked
- Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. Insane
- The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. Clings
- The world is the mirror of myself dying. Death
- To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the… Awake
- What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature. Derived
- When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. Apparently
- And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words? All
- Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. Bellyful
- It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things. American
- Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. Body
- Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip. Anytime
- The concert is a polite form of self induced torture. Concert
- The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death. Always Confounded
- The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. Always Gets
- The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead… Artist
- One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the… Bad
- Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the… Abundant
- In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way… Age
- Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing… Assets
- I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it… Able
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