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91 quotes by Henry Miller

Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891 – June 7, 1980) was an American writer. He was known for breaking with existing literary forms, developing a new sort of semi-autobiographical novel that blended character study, social criticism, philosophical reflection, explicit language, sex, surrealist free association and mysticism. His most characteristic works of this kind are Tropic of Cancer (1934), Black Spring (1936), Tropic of Capricorn...
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Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

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The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.

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The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

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Actors die so loud.

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One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea... →

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I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

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The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or... →

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And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?

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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

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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.

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It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.

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What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

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Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.

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