Best Henry Miller Quotations
- I see America spreading disaster. I see America as a black curse upon the world. I see a long night settling in and that mushroom… America
- When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best… Appreciate
- In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death,… Attempt
- It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated… Accumulate
- Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of… Angeles
- Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for… Action
- No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of… Earth
- The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication… Author
- The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil,… Always Carries
- There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that… All
- Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is. Cautious
- Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am. All
- Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are,… All
- You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of… Ashamed
- Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. Doe
- Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. Defeat
- Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days. All
- And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom… Boredom
- What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse. Bitter
- It is now the fall of my second year in Paris. I was sent here for a reason I have not yet been able to… Able
- Example moves the world more than doctrine. Doctrine
- Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts… Angel
- It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know… Better
- On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama. Creating
- There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved… Activity
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