Quotes About Persistence

If you are going to try, go all the way, otherwhise don't even start.

Endurance is more important than truth.

I waited. Nothing. I waited for God. I waited and waited. I believe I slept.

Just living until you die is hard work, I said

sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted— stretched there upon my bed in the dark looking upward at the ceiling I get what many will consider an obnoxious thought: it's still nice to be Bukowski.

if you have to wait for it to roar out of you, then wait patiently. if it never does roar out of you, do something else.

There are still things to be handle; there will always be things to be handled. Nobody ever gets caught up and finished on what there is to do. And even if you do, for a moment, feel a central peace, there is always somebody walking behind you with a switchblade.

DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG

Let us celebrate the stupidity of our endurance.

Çarenivîsa mirov ev e; Ku di seranserî temenê xwe da rencê bikiÅŸîne Da ku bikare bijî, Bijî Û bijî Heta ku bikare bimire!

as the junkies junk as the alkies drink as the whores whore as the killers kill the albatross blinks its eyes the weather stays mostly the same.

Creation is like anything else good: You have to wait on it; ambition has killed more Artists than indolence.

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is." –Paraphrased from Charles Bukowski's poem "Roll the Dice

roll the dice if you're going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don't get into it. if you're going to try, go all the way. this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. go all the way. it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. it could mean freezing on a park bench. it could mean jail, alcoholism, it could mean derision, mockery, isolation.

there are times when we should, remember, the strange courage, of the second-rate who refuse to quit, when the nights, are black and long and sleepless, and the days are without, end.

it's the dream that keeps you going then and now.

It's only when things are not going too badly for a while that we forget.

Algunas personas nunca enloquecen. Tendrán unas vidas realmente horribles.

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

There's always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.

Czekaj?c zabi?em 4 muchy. Cholera, ?mier? czai si? wsz?dzie.

I was tired and wet and hungover, but I was usually that way and I waded through the weariness like I did the water.

If you're going to try, go all the way.

if they can exist on just these fragments of things, then I can exist too.