Henry Miller Quotes

What's a fuck when what I want is love?

The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.

To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth — I count that something of a miracle.

I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

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

I have found God, but he is insufficient.

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy

And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.

What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything