Henry Miller Quotes

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

  Henry Miller

• Plots and character don’t make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

  Henry Miller

• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

  Henry Miller

• One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

  Henry Miller

• 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 sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

  Henry Miller

• 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 resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe.

  Henry Miller

• Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.

  Henry Miller

• Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines – these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

  Henry Miller

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

  Henry Miller

• Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

  Henry Miller

• 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

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

  Henry Miller

• 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 is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

  Henry Miller

• Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

  Henry Miller

• It isn’t the oceans which cut us off from the world – it’s the American way of looking at things.

  Henry Miller

• It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

  Henry Miller

• 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 in me like the waters of a reservoir.

  Henry Miller

• Instead of asking ‘How much damage will the work in question bring about?’ why not ask ‘How much good? How much joy?’

  Henry Miller

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

  Henry Miller

Henry Miller (124)

Birth:	26th December, 1891
Death:	7th June, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Painter

About

Henry Valentine Miller was born in Yorkville, Manhattan, USA. He was an American novelist and painter. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer(novel), Black Sprin(novel), Tropic of Capricorn(novel), and The Rosy Crucifixion trilogy(novel), all of which are based on his experiences in New York and Paris. He was a close friend of the French painter Grégoire Michonze. It is estimated that Miller painted 2,000 watercolors during his life, and that 50 or more major collections of Miller’s paintings exist.

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