Henry Miller Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

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

“Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.”

“When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.”

“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.”

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

“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.”

“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.”

“Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.”

“If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more.”

“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.”