Henry Miller Quotes About Impulse

Quotes about: Impulse

• Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

• Side by side with the human race there runs another race of beings, the inhuman ones, the race of artists who, goaded by unknown impulses, take the lifeless mass of humanity and by the fever and ferment with which they imbue it turn this soggy dough into bread and the bread into wine and the wine into song.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Song, Wine

  Henry Miller (1964). “Henry Miller on Writing”, New Directions Publishing

• One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

  Henry Miller

  Reason Why, Reason, Stifling

  Henry Miller (1969). “The Books in My Life”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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