Henry Miller Quotes

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.

Each of us may think we know exactly what we need to make us happy, what will be good for us, what will ensure we have our happy ending, but life rarely works out in the way we expect, and our happy ending may have all sorts of unexpected twists and turns, be shaped in all sorts of unexpected ways

I could make the title of my memoirs: 'It's got cinematic disaster written all over it.'

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I'm a believer of destiny, and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs, and I've seen the lows, and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.

I didn't plan on being a comedian. I didn't plan on getting married and I didn't plan on having kids, but I did all those things.

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

Every path serves a purpose.

Someone once said that life is what happens while we are making other plans. I now know what that means.

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.

Life is crazy. It goes in directions that you could never guess.

All roads lead home in the end. You've got to keep that in mind always - in your work and in your life.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

What are we doing here, that is the question.

One of the best things about life—a reason not to go blindly after one goal and one goal only—is that sometimes it will take you to something that is way cooler than anything you would have consciously set out to do in the first place.

But real life doesn't travel in a perfect straight line; it doesn't necessarily have that 'all lived happily ever after' bit. You have to work on where you're going.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.

There is a goal but no way; what we call the way is mere wavering.

No matter whose fault, God sends us through storms so we can land in a place we never would have otherwise.

...even the most independent people sometimes needed help. And if I'd learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don't always end up where you think you're going.

Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.