self-sought

Updated: May 19, 2025

Presently he lifted it, and cried out, as if replying to some unseen speaker: "If a self-sought death entails eternal torment, am I not in hell here upon earth? How else, when to live is to hold her in bondage, knowing that she longs and pines to be free? And yet, to go out into the dark and leave her! never again to see her! never more to feel the light of her eyes flow into me!

Richard Dehan - The Dop Doctor