Charles Bukowski on death
Charles Bukowski101 quotes“Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.”
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I lie as truthfully as I can.
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Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Charles BukowskiCharles Bukowski We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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His eyes close, and he draws a long breath. When they open again, they’re colder than ever. “And that’s where you’d be disappointed, Lou.There is no good to be found in Death.
T.L. MartinT.L. Martin The media is either our salvation or our death.
David BowieDavid Bowie Inside I’m dying. Outside I’m smiling.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
Elie WieselElie Wiesel Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying’s as natural as living. The man who’s too afraid to die is too afraid to live.
Clark GableClark Gable It is life, more than death, that has no limits.
Gabriel García MárquezGabriel García Márquez Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Langston HughesLangston Hughes Pride dies 20 minutes after death.
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