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

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

— Henry Miller

“When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.”

— Henry Miller

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

— 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

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

— Henry Miller

“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

“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

“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

“Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'”

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

“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

“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

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

— 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

“In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.”

— Henry Miller

“We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.”

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller