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Quotes About Suffering

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
~ Charles Bukowski
Barney, when a man gets old enough, trapped enough, hungry enough, weary enough — he'll suck dick, tit, eat shit to stay alive; either that or suicide. the human race ain't got it, man. it's a bad crowd.
~ Charles Bukowski
I have consumed more drink than the first one hundred men you will pass on the street or meet in the madhouse. I scratch my belly and dream of the albatross. I have joined the great drunks of the centuries: Li Po, Toulouse-Lautrec, Crane, Faulkner. I have been selected but by whom?
~ Charles Bukowski
Yeah, jobs, just for the rent and some food in your belly so you can come back and let them rape your hours, your life, you.
~ Charles Bukowski
La bondad podía encontrarse a veces en el centro del infierno.
~ Charles Bukowski
The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. I
~ Charles Bukowski
hell is built piece by piece brick by brick around you.
~ Charles Bukowski
Dostoyevsky crucified on the roulette wheel with Christ on his mind
~ Charles Bukowski
And what hurts is the steadily diminishing humanity of those fighting to hold jobs they don't want but fear the alternative worse. People simply empty out. They are bodies with fearful and obedient minds. The color leaves the eye. The voice becomes ugly. And the body. The hair. The fingernails. The shoes. Everything does.
~ Charles Bukowski
I'd walk down the street and I'd stagger, sober I'd stagger, hear churchbells, wounded dogs, wounded me, all that.
~ Charles Bukowski
I got drunker and stayed drunker than a shit skunk in Purgatory.
~ Charles Bukowski
I felt too miserable to be unhappy.
~ Charles Bukowski
Love… Is like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
~ Charles Bukowski
as I continue to consume - while the madhouses, skidrows and graveyards are filled with the likes of me
~ Charles Bukowski
Aeg oli seisma jäänud ja eksistents oli väljakannatamatu.
~ Charles Bukowski
When the agony of all the people is heard, nothing will be done.
~ Charles Bukowski
Love breaks my bone ans I
~ Charles Bukowski
Love breaks my bone ans I Laugh.
~ Charles Bukowski
sometimes there is a dark cloud that never passes. It stays forever!" "Well, that's death.
~ Charles Bukowski
It occurred to me that everybody suffered continually, including those who pretended they didn't.
~ Charles Bukowski
Hai visto che occhiÈ malato. - È malato di sogni. Siamo tutti malati di sogni. Ecco perchè siamo qui.
~ Charles Bukowski
I think a man can keep o drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer... I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth... if I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
~ Charles Bukowski
El tiempo no transcurría en tanto la existencia se iba transformando en algo insoportable.
~ Charles Bukowski
Just living until you die is hard work," I said.
~ Charles Bukowski