Top 500 Henry Miller Quotes (2026 Update)
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51. “Writing is its own reward.”

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

53. “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.”

— Henry Miller

54. “Cluster together like stars!”

— Henry Miller

55. “As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.”

— Henry Miller

56. “It is almost banal to say so yet it needs to be stressed continually: all is creation, all is change, all is flux, all is metamorphosis.”

— Henry Miller

57. “Even the idiot may have a message for us.”

— Henry Miller

58. “When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.”

— Henry Miller

59. “The blind lead the blind. It’s the democratic way.”

— Henry Miller

60. “You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.”

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

62. “I soon found out you can’t change the world. The best you can do is to learn to live with it.”

— Henry Miller

63. “On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.”

— Henry Miller

64. “No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.”

— Henry Miller

65. “The world is the mirror of myself dying.”

— Henry Miller

66. “It is silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites.”

— Henry Miller

67. “Without a Coca-Cola life is unthinkable.”

— Henry Miller

68. “Whoever uses the spirit that is in him creatively is an artist. To make living itself an art, that is the goal.”

— Henry Miller

69. “An artist is always alone – if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”

— Henry Miller

70. “The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.”

— Henry Miller

71. “I have found God, but he is insufficient.”

— Henry Miller

72. “Music is the can-opener of the soul.”

— Henry Miller

73. “We must be holy without holiness. We must be whole, complete. That’s being holy. Any other kind of holiness is false, a snare, and a delusion.”

— Henry Miller

74. “We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.”

— Henry Miller

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75. “I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.”

— Henry Miller

76. “Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.”

— Henry Miller

77. “Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong – it can end everything.”

— Henry Miller

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78. “We live at the edge of the miraculous.”

— Henry Miller

79. “Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.”

— Henry Miller

80. “Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.”

— Henry Miller

81. “There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.”

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

83. “Hitler is no worse, nay better, in my opinion, than the other lugs. He makes the German mistake of being tactless, that’s all.”

— Henry Miller

84. “Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn’t matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”

— Henry Miller

85. “I’m a bit retarded, like most Americans.”

— Henry Miller

86. “He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals.”

— Henry Miller

87. “The full and joyful acceptance of the worst in oneself may be the only sure way of transforming it.”

— Henry Miller

88. “I’d rather sit down and write a letter than call someone up. I hate the telephone.”

— Henry Miller

89. “What is an artist? He’s a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.”

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

91. “Jump off. You are a protected individual. Do not fear.”

— Henry Miller

92. “Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.”

— Henry Miller

93. “If one believes, then miracles occur.”

— Henry Miller

94. “Real love is never perplexed, never qualifies, never rejects, never demands. It replenishes, by grace of restoring unlimited circulation. It burns, because it knows the true meaning of sacrifice. It is life illuminated.”

— Henry Miller

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95. “France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.”

— Henry Miller

96. “One can fight evil but against stupidity one is helpless.”

— Henry Miller

97. “Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”

— Henry Miller

98. “We are dancing in the hollow of nothingness. We are one flesh, but separated like stars.”

— Henry Miller

99. “Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

— Henry Miller

100. “When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.”

— Henry Miller