Eli

“Everything is endured—disgrace, humiliation, poverty, war, crime, ennui—in the belief that overnight something will occur, a miracle, which will render life tolerable.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

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

“He wakes up utterly bored and discomfited, chagrined to think that he did not die overnight.”
― 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