Henry Miller

Henry Miller

36 quotes

Henry Miller, an American novelist, is widely remembered for insights that continue to resonate with readers everywhere. Henry Miller's observations on Work are as sharp as their thoughts on Music, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Discover 46 of Henry Miller's most memorable quotes, ranging across Work, Music, Art, Truth, and Love. To get a sense of their style, try: "The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love."

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

— Henry Miller

Love

All Quotes by Henry Miller

“The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.”

— Henry Miller

Work

“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

“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.”

— Henry Miller

Death

“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

“There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.”

— Henry Miller

Fear

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

— Henry Miller

Music

“No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe.”

— Henry Miller

Failure

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

— Henry Miller

Life

“Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.”

— Henry Miller

Art

“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.”

— Henry Miller

Art

“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

Age

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

— Henry Miller

Wisdom

“Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.”

— Henry Miller

Nature

“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

Music

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

— Henry Miller

Knowledge

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

— Henry Miller

Leadership

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

— Henry Miller

Strength

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

— Henry Miller

Knowledge

“The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.”

— Henry Miller

Communication

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

— Henry Miller

Money