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Henry Miller Quotes

Total quotes: 13
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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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