Quotes by "Henry Miller"

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

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

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.

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.

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

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

Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.

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.

What's a fuck when what I want is love?

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

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

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.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such

For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens. Not one of us is intact, and yet we have in us all the continents and the seas between the continents and the birds of the air. We are going to put it down ― the evolution of this world which has died but which has not been buried.

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.