Top 500 Henry Miller Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Cluster together like stars!”

— Henry Miller

52. “Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

55. “Until we lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.”

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

60. “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

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

— Henry Miller

62. “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

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

— Henry Miller

64. “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

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

71. “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

72. “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

73. “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

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

— Henry Miller

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

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

80. “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

81. “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

82. “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

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

— Henry Miller

84. “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

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

87. “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

88. “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

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

93. “People are like lice – they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can’t get permanently deloused.”

— Henry Miller

94. “We should not stop to reflect, compare, analyze, possess, but flow on and through, endlessly, like music.”

— Henry Miller

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

— Henry Miller

96. “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

97. “For there is only one great adventure and that is inward toward the self, and for that, time nor space nor even deeds matter.”

— Henry Miller

98. “Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.”

— Henry Miller

99. “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”

— Henry Miller

100. “My hunger and curiosity drive me forward in all directions at once.”

— Henry Miller