Henry Miller Quotes

"Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves." ~Henry Miller


"One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things." Henry Miller


Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery." Henry Miller



For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter. ~ Henry Miller






"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order that is not yet understood." - Henry Miller


The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller G'day



“Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.” ~Henry Miller



What are we here for if not to enjoy life eternal, solve what problems we can, give light, peace and joy to our fellow-man, and leave this dear fucked-up planet a little healthier than when we were born. - H.M.


No matter what you touch and you wish to know about, you end up in a sea of mystery. You see there’s no beginning or end, you can go back as far as you want, forward as far as you want, but you never got to it, it’s like the essence, it’s that right, it remains. This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can’t grasp it. And it’s meant to be that way, do y’know. And there’s where our reverence should come in. Before everything, the littlest thing as well as the greatest. The tiniest, the horseshit, as well as the angels, do y’know what I mean. It’s all mystery. All impenetrable, as it were, right?


"Let us do our best, even if it gets us nowhere." Henry Miller's superb handwritten notice to visitors


“When you come please be so kind as to check your neuroses & psychoses at the gate.”Henry Miller's notice to visitors


If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. ~ Henry Miller



Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
- HENRY MILLER




If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. — Henry Miller

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. — Henry Miller

The real leader has no need to lead; he is content to point the way. — Henry Miller

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

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. — Henry Miller

Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. — Henry Miller



“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, 1950.



"The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way." ~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 world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order. -Henry Miller