Henry Miller Quotes

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

Love, Give, Enough

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

Life, Live, Means

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller

Art, Alone, Loneliness

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

Life, Music, Beautiful

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

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.
Henry Miller

Faith, Nothing, Miracles

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.
Henry Miller

Control, Revolution, Two

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

Life, Music, Beautiful

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

Money, Alive, Happiest

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller

Moment, Awesome, Attention

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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
Henry Miller

Life, Through, Whatever

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Henry Miller

Experience, Dark, Growth

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Henry Miller

Confusion, Word, Order

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

Imagination, God, Everything

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

True, Place, Rather

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.
Henry Miller

Hope, Fear, Give

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
Henry Miller

Great, Wise, Enough

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

Future, Him, Destiny

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.
Henry Miller

Life, Liar, Though

We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.
Henry Miller

Another, Talk, Facts

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
Henry Miller

Crazy, Becoming, Salvation

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

Leadership, Real, Leader

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

Life, Strength, True

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Henry Miller

Nothing, Passion, Fire

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

Love, Give, Enough

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 26, 1891

Died: June 7, 1980

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