Quotes by Henry Miller

"If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

"I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth."

"Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane."

"We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy."

"The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them."

"The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference."

"The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks."

"The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition."

"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life."

"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

"One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

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

"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."

"Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring."

"The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon."

"Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'"

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

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

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

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