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Henry Miller Quotes

Total quotes: 22
“The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love.”
— Henry Miller, A quote by Henry Miller
Tagged: Love, Acceptance
“I made up my mind that I would hold onto nothing, that I would expect nothing.”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Tagged: Expectations, Holding On, Avoidance, Beliefs
“Now people are books to me. I read them from cover to cover and toss them aside. I devour them, one after the other. And the more I read, the more insatiable I become. There is no limit to it.”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
Tagged: Relationships, Love, Experiences
“At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love.”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Tagged: Love, Love (The Concept), Heart and Love
“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”
— Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird
Tagged: Be yourself, Be You, Confidence
“MORNINGS:
If groggy, type notes and allocate, as stimulus.

If in fine fettle, write.

AFTERNOONS:

Work of section in hand, following plan of section scrupulously. No intrusions, no diversions. Write to finish one section at a time, for good and all.

EVENINGS:

See friends. Read in cafés.

Explore unfamiliar sections — on foot if wet, on bicycle if dry.

Write, if in mood, but only on Minor program.

Paint if empty or tired.

Make Notes. Make Charts, Plans. Make corrections of MS.

Note: Allow sufficient time during daylight to make an occasional visit to museums or an occasional sketch or an occasional bike ride. Sketch in cafés and trains and streets. Cut the movies! Library for references once a week.”
— Henry Miller, Henry Miller on Writing (New Directions Paperbook)
Tagged: Writing Routines
“Give me a few days of peace in your arms—I need it terribly. I’m ragged, worn, exhausted. After that I can face the world.”
— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
Tagged: I Miss You
“We do not talk—we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines, and digests.”
— Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare(New Directions Paperbook)
Tagged: Media, technology and communication
“Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation....The other eight are unimportant.”
— Henry Miller
Tagged: Henry Miller, Sex, Sex Is...
“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.”
— Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
Tagged: Flaws, Paradise
“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, No Title
Tagged: Life, Experience, Interest, Happiness
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth — I count that something of a miracle.”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
Tagged: Sex, Relationships, Love, Miracle
“What I want is to open up. I want to know what’s inside me. I want everybody to open up. I’m like an imbecile with a can opener in his hand, wondering where to begin — to open up the earth. I know that underneath the mess everything is marvelous. I’m sure of it.”
— Henry Miller, Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I
Tagged: Openness
“I need you as the one luminous point in my madness.”
— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion
Tagged: Madness, Luminous, Need, Desire, Survival
“I adored you. You were so soft, so diabolically angelic looking.”
— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953
Tagged: admiration, Adoration, Love
“One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
— Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Tagged: Solitude, Alone, Contemplation
“The only true obscenity is war.’”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Tagged: War, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
““He will never be satisfied,” writes one biographer...I know because I suffer from the same disease...I don't believe for a minute that the flowers ever faded or the stars were ever dimmed in Rimbaud's eyes...It was the world of men that his weary glance saw things pale and fade. He began by wanting to “see all, feel all, exhaust everything, explore everything, say everything.” ...He had no choice of fighting for the rest of his life to hold the ground he had gained or to renounce the struggle utterly. Why could he not have compromised? Because compromise was not in his vocabulary. He was a fanatic from childhood, a person who had to go the whole hog or die. In this lied his purity, his innocence.”
— Henry Miller, The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
Tagged: Satisfaction, Dreamworld, Fanatic, Normality
“Anaïs, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me. 

This is a little drunken, Anaïs. I am saying to myself "here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere." I remember your saying - "you could fool me, I wouldn't know it." When I walk along the boulevards and think of that. I can't fool you - and yet I would like to. I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal - it's not in me. I love women, or life, too much - which it is, I don't know. 

But laugh, Anaïs, I love to hear you laugh. You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. 

I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.”
— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
Tagged: Stunning Love Letters
“Anais, I only thought I loved you before; it was nothing like this certainty that's in me now. Was all this so wonderful only because it was brief and stolen? Were we acting for each other, to each other? Was I less I, or more I, and you less or more you? Is it madness to believe that this could go on? When and where would the drab moments begin? I study you so much to discover the possible flaws, the weak points, the danger zones. I don't find them—not any. That means I am in love, blind, blind. To be blind forever! ”
— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
Tagged: Stunning Love Letters
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