Henry Miller Quotes & Sayings (Page 9)

“Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.”

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

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

“The concert is a polite form of self induced torture.”

“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.”

“Actors die so loud.”

“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, whether a good one or a bad one.”

“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 subversive.”

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

“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.”