Henry Miller Quotes

Author Image

Henry Miller

Profession : Author

Birth : December 26, 1891

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

Henry Miller

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

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

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

Henry Miller

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

Henry Miller

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

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

Henry Miller

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

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

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

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

Henry Miller

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

Henry Miller

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

Henry Miller

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

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

Henry Miller

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

Henry Miller

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

Henry Miller

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

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

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

Henry Miller