Quotes by Henry Miller

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Develop an interest in life as you see it the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

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

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

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

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