Eli

“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 Satan was plunged. There is no climbing back, no ray of light, no sound of human voice or human touch of hand.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“He wakes up cursing himself, or cursing the job, or cursing life.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“If I am a hyena I am a lean and hungry one: I go forth to fatten myself.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Suffering is futile, my intelligence told me over and over, but I went on suffering voluntarily.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn