Henry Miller Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.259, New Directions Publishing

• 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

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Moving On

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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

  Henry Miller

  Life, Happiness, Success

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.2, New Directions Publishing

• Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Positive, Law Of Attraction

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

• 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

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

  Henry Miller

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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

  Henry Miller

  Life, Strength, Lying

  Henry Miller (1962). “The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud”, p.131, New Directions Publishing

• Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Humility, Literature

• Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Moving, Hero

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.356, New Directions Publishing

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

  Henry Miller

  Life, Matter, Let Me

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

• Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Frozen, Assets

  Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.359, New Directions Publishing

• Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Procrastination, Long

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.96, New Directions Publishing

• Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Fate

• The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Pockets, Meals

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

• Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Inspire, Cylinders

• Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Life, Being Yourself

• 'Life', said Emerson, "consists in what a man is thinking all day." If that be so, then my life is nothing but a big intestine.

  Henry Miller

  Life, Men, Thinking

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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