Henry Miller Quotes

The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.

Henry Miller

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

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Henry Miller

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

Henry Miller

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

Henry Miller

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

Henry Miller

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

Henry Miller

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Henry Miller

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

Henry Miller

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

Henry Miller

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Henry Miller

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

Henry Miller

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Henry Miller