Quotations of selected author

Henry Miller

1891-1980. American writer.


1. "The whole damn universe has to be taken apart, brick by brick, and reconstructed."

categories: Various


2. "The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination."

categories: Art and Culture -:- Reality and Imagination


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

categories: Love


4. "Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation - the other eight are unimportant."

categories: Manners and Ethics


5. "Love is complete and utter surrender."

categories: Love


6. "Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."

categories: God and Religion -:- Reality and Imagination


7. "If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms."

categories: Dreams and Desires -:- Human


8. "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive."

categories: Happiness



9. "I have never regretted anything. Regret, like guilt, is a waste of time."

categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia


10. "Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient."

categories: Destiny and Fate


11. "Every man has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him."

categories: Destiny and Fate


12. "Even before the music begins there is that bored look on people's faces. A polite form of self-imposed torture, the concert."

source: "Tropic of Cancer"

categories: Art and Culture