90 quotes
There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)
Political leaders are never leaders. For leaders we have to look to the Awakeners! Lao Tse, Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Milarepa, Gurdjiev, Krishnamurti.
My Bike & Other Friends (1977)
If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.
The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)
One's destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (1957)
Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
The real leader has no need to lead—he is content to point the way.
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
The frantic desire to live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of the death rhythm.
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
Take a good look at me. Now tell me, do you think I'm the sort of fellow who gives a fuck what happens once he's dead?
Tropic of Capricorn (1939)
I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.
The Rosy Crucifixion II: Plexus (1953)
I'm crazy enough to believe that the happiest man on earth is the man with the fewest needs.
The Colossus of Maroussi (1941)
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)
Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo.
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
In the broad Pacific of sex she lay, a gleaming silver reef surrounded with human anemones, human starfish, human madrepores.
Tropic of Capricorn (1939)
The man who is forever disturbed about the problems of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.
The Rosy Crucifixion I: Sexus (1949)
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
The Wisdom of the Heart (1941)
To be generous is to say Yes before the man even opens his mouth.
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)
I am glad to be a maggot in the corpse which is the world.
Henry Miller on Writing (1964)