Henry Miller Quotes

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Henry Miller

Pain, Mind, Him

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 way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
Henry Miller

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.
Henry Miller

Reality, Chaos, Written

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Henry Miller

Place, Rather, Looking

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Henry Miller

Philosophy, Again, Fact

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.
Henry Miller

Word, Beginning, Act

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

Music, Live, Mind

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Henry Miller

Done, Joy, Whatever

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 is, in the long run, the easiest.
Henry Miller

Age, Greatest, Long

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 as frozen assets.
Henry Miller

Life, Resources, Providing

Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.
Henry Miller

Through, Whatever, Needs

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
Henry Miller

Men, Become, Gods

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

Nature, Everything, Except

The real enemy can always be met and conquered, or won over. Real antagonism is based on love, a love which has not recognized itself.
Henry Miller

Love, Enemy, Real

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller

Hero, Action, Difference

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
Henry Miller

Another, Face, Nobody

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Miller

Him, Moment, Vision

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

Legal, Often, Everyday

Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
Henry Miller

Life, Nothing, Learn

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
Henry Miller

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.
Henry Miller

Evil, Enough, Makes

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 had a chance to ripen.
Henry Miller

Before, America, Young

Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
Henry Miller

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

Knowledge, Same, Guilt

Actors die so loud.
Henry Miller

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 26, 1891

Died: June 7, 1980

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