More - Henry Miller Quotes

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

Henry Miller

 American Author Desperation

Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

Henry Miller

 Judaism And Jews

The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way

Henry Miller

 

Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.

Henry Miller

 Alcohol And Alcoholism Civilization

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Henry Miller

 American Author Criticism

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge

Henry Miller

 Life Motivational Progress

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring...

Henry Miller

 

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.

Henry Miller

 

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act according to their beliefs

Henry Miller

 Ability

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

 Life