Henry Miller Quotes

It had ceased raining in the night and he walked out on the road and called for the dog. He called and called. Standing in that inexplicable darkness. Where there was no sound anywhere save only the wind. After a while he sat in the road. He took off his hat and placed it on the tarmac before him and he bowed his head and held his face in his hands and wept. He sat there for a long time and after a while the east did gray and after a while the right and godmade sun did rise, once again, for all and without distinction.

You cried for night - it falls. Now cry in darkness.

Does the world have nothing inside but sorrow?

I know how it feels to lose.

Nothing remained but loneliness and grief.

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

I know what it's like to lose.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

Despair is part of love.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

It doth not hurt", whispered a faint voice, "She will take you life and all you are and all you care'st for, and she will leave you with nothing but mist and fog. She'll take your joy. And one day you'll wake and your heart and soul will have gone. A husk you'll be, a wisp you'll be, and a thing no more than a dream on waking, or a memory of something forgotten.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

Getting through the nights is the toughest part. Being alone. Not having her there to talk to.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state; it's an inconsolable emotion.

I hate death; it takes people away from you. You're left feeling rudderless.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.