Henry Miller Quotes

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Henry Miller

Profession : Author

Birth : December 26, 1891

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

Henry Miller

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

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

Henry Miller

The world is the mirror of myself dying.

Henry Miller

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Henry Miller

The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order.

Henry Miller

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

Henry Miller

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

Henry Miller

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

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

Henry Miller

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

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

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

Henry Miller

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.

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

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

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

Henry Miller

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

Henry Miller

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

Henry Miller

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