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Henry Miller Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Tagged: Sex, hookups
“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.”
— Henry Miller, No Title
Tagged: Life, Experience, Interest, Happiness
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth — I count that something of a miracle.”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
Tagged: Sex, Relationships, Love, Miracle
“I need you as the one luminous point in my madness.”
— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion
Tagged: Madness, Luminous, Need, Desire, Survival
“The only true obscenity is war.’”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Tagged: War, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
““He will never be satisfied,” writes one biographer...I know because I suffer from the same disease...I don't believe for a minute that the flowers ever faded or the stars were ever dimmed in Rimbaud's eyes...It was the world of men that his weary glance saw things pale and fade. He began by wanting to “see all, feel all, exhaust everything, explore everything, say everything.” ...He had no choice of fighting for the rest of his life to hold the ground he had gained or to renounce the struggle utterly. Why could he not have compromised? Because compromise was not in his vocabulary. He was a fanatic from childhood, a person who had to go the whole hog or die. In this lied his purity, his innocence.”
— Henry Miller, The Time of the Assassins: A Study of Rimbaud
Tagged: Satisfaction, Dreamworld, Fanatic, Normality
“Anaïs, I don't know how to tell you what I feel. I live in perpetual expectancy. You come and the time slips away in a dream. It is only when you go that I realize completely your presence. And then it is too late. You numb me. 

This is a little drunken, Anaïs. I am saying to myself "here is the first woman with whom I can be absolutely sincere." I remember your saying - "you could fool me, I wouldn't know it." When I walk along the boulevards and think of that. I can't fool you - and yet I would like to. I mean that I can never be absolutely loyal - it's not in me. I love women, or life, too much - which it is, I don't know. 

But laugh, Anaïs, I love to hear you laugh. You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. 

I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me.”
— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
Tagged: Stunning Love Letters
“Anais, I only thought I loved you before; it was nothing like this certainty that's in me now. Was all this so wonderful only because it was brief and stolen? Were we acting for each other, to each other? Was I less I, or more I, and you less or more you? Is it madness to believe that this could go on? When and where would the drab moments begin? I study you so much to discover the possible flaws, the weak points, the danger zones. I don't find them—not any. That means I am in love, blind, blind. To be blind forever! ”
— Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953
Tagged: Stunning Love Letters
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