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Explore our hand-picked selection of 441 inspiring quotes by Henry Miller.

About Henry Miller

  • Born: December 26, 1891
  • Died: June 7, 1980
  • Occupation: Writer
    • Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. the gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.
    Home May Spirit
    All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. there are passages in ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
    Funny Book Reading
    My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into the system as flesh and blood which in turn creates new spirit and reshapes the world.
    Book Sight Blood
    To be cured, we must rise from our graves and throw off the cerements of the dead. nobody can do it for another - it is a private affair which is best done collectively. we must die as egos and be born again in the swarm, not separated and self-hypnotized, but individual and related.
    Change Self Ego
    Until he [man] has become fully human, until he learns to conduct himself as a member of the earth, he will continue to create gods who will destroy him. the tragedy of greece lies not in the destruction of a great culture but in the abortion of a great vision.
    Lying Men Abortion
    The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph.
    Love Sweet Wall
    A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. it obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. the deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there - that of the pulse, the heart beat.
    Horse Stars Reading
    And what is the potential man, after all? is he not the sum of all that is human? divine, in other words?
    Men Literature Divine
    When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. there are no limits in either direction apparently.
    Men Literature Limits
    My one thought is to get out of new york, to experience something genuinely american.
    New York
    The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.
    Everyday Citizens Legal System
    No, there's fifteen francs somewhere, which nobody gives a damn about anymore and which nobody is going to get in the end anyhow, but the fifteen francs is like the primal cause of things and rather than listen to one's own voice, rather than walk out on the primal cause, one surrenders to the situation, one goes on butchering and butchering and the more cowardly one feels the more heroically does he behave, until a day when the bottom drops out and suddenly all the guns are silenced and the stretcher-bearers pick up the maimed and bleeding heroes and pin medals on their chest.
    Hero Gun Voice
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