Henry Miller Quotes

Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Everything born has to die, in order to make room for the future.

Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.

To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.

At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone.

You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

Life is the elimination of what is dead.

All things change, nothing perishes.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

Nature has different times.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Our business is with life, not death.

Growth is the only evidence of life.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.