Henry Miller Quotes

“When into the womb of time everything is again withdrawn chaos will be restored and chaos is the score upon which reality is written.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:reality

“For the moment I can think of nothing—except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of these waters that reflect a forgotten world.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:world

“The world around me is dissolving, leaving here and there spots of time. The world is a cancer eating itself away… I am thinking that when the great silence descends upon all and everywhere music will at last triumph.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:world music silence

“I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:writing action

“As long as that spark of passion is missing there is no human significance in the performance.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:passion

“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:loneliness despair

“It is not difficult to be alone if you are poor and a failure. An artist is always alone—if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:loneliness poverty failure

“I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard — and in order to forget.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn

topic:loneliness forgetting

“There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:books interest

“To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:music

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