48 Quotes By Henry Miller


Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry Miller on imagination

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 Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
Henry Miller on imagination

Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Henry Miller on knowledge

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
Henry Miller on knowledge

The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.
Henry Miller on leadership

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
Henry Miller on legal

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
Henry Miller on life

Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller on life

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.
Henry Miller on love

The only thing we never get enough of is love and the only thing we never give enough of is love.
Henry Miller on love

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Henry Miller on money

Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller on music

Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Henry Miller on music

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
Henry Miller on music

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
Henry Miller on music

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.
Henry Miller on nature

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Henry Miller on peace

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller on strength

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

The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.
Henry Miller on truth