Henry Miller Quotes

Everyman has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.

The word in your mouth is anarchy.

One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

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

If we are always arriving and departing, it is alsotrue that we are eternally anchored. One's destinationis never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

The world around me is dissolving leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away.

I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse.

A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.

He read as much as his curiosity demanded - which is to say all

When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.

For in Mexico, ladies and gentlemen, it's always high noon and what glows is fuchsia and what's dead is dead and no feather-dusters.

If you can't give the is-ness of a thing give the not-ness of it! The main thing is to hook up, get the wheels turning, sound off. When your brakes jam, try going in reverse. If often works.

We have no need for genius - genius is dead. We have need for strong hands, for spirits who are willing to give up the ghost and put on flesh...

The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.

There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.

The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.

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

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

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

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

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Like ships men flounder time and time again.

We create our fate every day we live.

The only peace the only security is in fulfillment.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being not having.

Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it to accept it no matter where it leads him.

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.

I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.

Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.