Quotes About Acceptance

so I let them have their little victories which they need far more than I do.

there is of course madness and terror too in knowing that some part of you wound up like a clock can never be wound again once it stops.

La gente debe encontrar cosas que hacer mientras espera la muerte.

Sus ojos, muy abiertos, temblaban, pero sin miedo, sin vacilación. Aquellos ojos: lo dejaban entrar y salir todo. Ella era animal, y humana.

A number of men tried to catch her eye, but she walked close by my side, holding my arm. Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were, and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding love back and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then usually, there was trouble.

Neal would just go on driving, neither grim or happy or sardonic, just there - doing the movements. I understood. it was necessary. it was his bull ring, his racetrack. it was holy and necessary

tienes la muerte cerca igual que una amante, más cerca, la conoces como la palma de tu mano como esa mancha en la pared como el nombre de tu hija.

You learn about death by dying not by looking at it.

I would like to be human if only they would let me.

My only ambition is not to be anything at all; it seems the most sensible thing.

Suicide fails as you get older: There's less and less to kill

No hay que lamentarse por la muerte, como no hay que lamentarse por una flor que crece.

Sutradan sam otišao do mrtva?nice Srebrna mirna luka da i tamo provjerim stvari. Vraški dobar posao - nikad mort sezone.

perhaps it will help if we all realize that perhaps all of us have been pests at one time or another to somebody but we never knew it. shit, it's a horrible thought but most probably true and maybe it will help us bear up under the pest. basically, there is no 100 percent man. we are all run through with various madnesses and ugliness that we ourselves are not aware of but that everyone else is aware of.

lei ti sorride. un sorriso che dice: so che sei pazzo ma per me va bene lo stesso.

I said goodbye again sucking up all that was left of her into the little that was left of me. I said, don't look for me again. fuck it. we are all lost. goodbye, goodbye. — Charles Bukowski, from "Rimbaud be damned," The People Look Like Flowers at Last . (Ecco; First Edition edition March 27, 2007)

I have nothing against 2 men sleeping together so long as I am not one of those 2 men.

A maioria das pessoas não está pronta para a morte, a sua ou a dos outros. Ela as choca, as apavora. É como uma grande surpresa. Diabos, não deveria ser nunca. Levo a morte em meu bolso esquerdo. Ás vezes, tiro-a do bolso e falo com ela: 'Oi, gata, como vai? Quando virá me buscar? Vou estar pronto'.

Somos finos como papel.Existimos por acaso entre as percentagens, temporariamente. E esta é a melhor e a pior parte, o fator temporal. E não há nada que se possa fazer sobre isso. Você pode sentar no topo de uma montanha e meditar por décadas e nada vai mudar. Você pode mudar a si mesmo para ser aceitável, mas talvez isso também esteja errado. Talvez pensemos demais. Sinta mais, pense menos.

The '67 model was the last good Volks—and the young men knew it. "Hepburn, they stole our fucking car." "Oh Hank, surely not!" "It's gone. It was sitting there." I pointed. "Now it's gone." "Hank, what will we do?" "We'll take a taxi. I really feel bad." "Why do people do that?" "They have to. It's their way out." We

Le accettavo per quelle che erano, e l'amore veniva di rado e a fatica. Quando veniva, di solito, era per le ragioni sbagliate. Ci si stancava semplicemente di trattenere l'amore e lo si lasciava andare perchè aveva bisogno di andare da qualche parte. Era allora, di solito, che cominciavano i guai.

Adoro quelli che si sentono fuori posto, con loro mi sento sempre nel posto giusto.

I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know..

sometimes there is a dark cloud that never passes. It stays forever!" "Well, that's death.