Quote

The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

Henry Miller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Miller
Age: 88 †
Born: 1891
Born: December 26
Died: 1980
Died: June 7
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
Writer
New York City
New York
Genri Miller
Henri Miller
Phineas Flapdoodle
Offers
Wonderful
Opportunity
Human
Humans
Life

More quotes by Henry Miller

Image
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
Image
By choosing to live above the ordinary level we create extraordinary problems for ourselves.
Henry Miller
Image
It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens.
Henry Miller
Image
Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.
Henry Miller
Image
Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.
Henry Miller
Image
Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.
Henry Miller
Image
If you are well off and can afford to spend ten or twenty-five dollars a day to hire some patient soul to listen to your troubles you can be readjusted to the crazy scheme of things and spare yourself the humiliation of becoming a Christian Scientist. You can have your ego trimmed or removed, as you wish, just like a wart or bunion.
Henry Miller
Image
Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.
Henry Miller
Image
Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
Henry Miller
Image
The city grows like a cancer I must grow like a sun. The city eats deeper and deeper into the red it is an insatiable white louse which must die eventually of inanition. I am going to starve the white louse which is eating me up. I am going to die as a city in order to become again a man. Therefore I close my ears, my eyes, my mouth.
Henry Miller
Image
You can travel fifty thousand miles in America without once tasting a piece of good bread.
Henry Miller
Image
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Henry Miller
Image
What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
Henry Miller
Image
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
Henry Miller
Image
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
Henry Miller
Image
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
Henry Miller
Image
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
Henry Miller
Image
Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?
Henry Miller
Image
A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.
Henry Miller
Image
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