Tropic of Cancer Quotes

“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

“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

“a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:greatness

“I’ve lived out my melancholy youth. I don’t give a fuck any more what’s behind me, or what’s ahead of me. I’m healthy. Incurably healthy. No sorrows, no regrets. No past, no future. The present is enough for me. Day by day. Today!”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:present

“Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:joy

“When I realize that she is gone, perhaps gone forever, a great void opens up and I feel that I am falling, falling, falling into deep, black space. And this is worse than tears, deeper than regret or pain or sorrow; it is the abyss into which...”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:sorrow

“People are like lice—they get under your skin and bury themselves there. You scratch and scratch until the blood comes, but you can’t get permanently deloused.”

― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

topic:people

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