Top 50 Henry Miller Quotes for Bold Expression

“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.”

— Henry Miller

“The real leader has no need to lead – he is content to point the way.”

— 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

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

— Henry Miller

“One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”

— Henry Miller

“All is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.”

— 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

“To make living itself an art, that is the goal.”

— Henry Miller

“Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.”

— Henry Miller

“All art, all education, can be merely a footnote to living.”

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One’s destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.”

— Henry Miller

“There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.”

— Henry Miller

“One has to be half a genius to make a good living and a complete fool to enjoy it.”

— Henry Miller

“All progress occurs because people dare to be different.”

— Henry Miller

“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.”

— Henry Miller

“She said, “Why are you afraid to be bold?””

— Henry Miller

“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”

— Henry Miller

“No matter how little you think you have, if you are bold you have enough.”

— Henry Miller

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

— 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

“The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love.”

— Henry Miller

“The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.”

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

“In the attempt to break loose from bondage we create new fetters.”

— Henry Miller

“The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate.”

— Henry Miller

“Liberty is only possible on the condition of regularity, order, discipline, which are the condition of liberty itself.”

— Henry Miller

“To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.”

— Henry Miller

“Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.”

— Henry Miller

“Writing is its own reward.”

— Henry Miller

“I see myself as a huge, cracked urn in which gold and silver fish swim freely – at the bottom is a heap of mud and broken pottery, and from above the urn radiates light and color.”

— Henry Miller

“Writing is a struggle against silence.”

— Henry Miller

“What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?”

— Henry Miller

“The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.”

— Henry Miller

“Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.”

— Henry Miller

“Men are not suffering from the paucity of beautiful books, but from the lack of desire to read them.”

— Henry Miller

“The only thing we truly possess is our own experience and the primary raw material for any writer is precisely that.”

— Henry Miller

“The best teaching is the teaching which does not resort to anything which can be mistaken for teaching.”

— Henry Miller

“Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.”

— Henry Miller

“The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.”

— Henry Miller

“The moment one gives close attention to anything, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.”

— Henry Miller

“It takes only one person to make you happy and change your life: you.”

— Henry Miller

“To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.”

— Henry Miller

“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”

— Henry Miller

“Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.”

— Henry Miller

“The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange.”

— Henry Miller

“The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.”

— Henry Miller

“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.”

— Henry Miller