Quotes About Hope

we should have known. maybe we wanted cotton candy luck. maybe we believed. what trash. we believed like dogs believe.

The hope is a touch of graceful humor, no matter what's occurring. The ability to laugh, the ability to see the ridiculous, the ability not to tense up too much, when things become impossible, just to face them anyhow. A touch of humor. Let's say laughter through the flame. Or, guts. Courage… Humor, guts, and courage, no matter the odds. We can always face that.

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

There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out.

who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.

We must bring our own light to the darkness. Nobody is going to do it for us.

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but i'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad.

Bun?tatea putea fi uneori g?sit? în mijlocul iadului.

I told her, Hang tight, baby, it's a crazy world. And that, as they say, was that.

SUICIDE. Like a light going on. In the darkness. That there is an out helps you stay in.

The kids sit about sipping at their coffees and waiting for it to happen. It isn't going to happen.

But I gave the girl my address and phone number, thinking we might make it on the springs. (Harriet, you never arrived.)

I write poetry, worry, smile, laugh sleep continue for a while just like most of us just like all of us; sometimes I want to hug all Mankind on earth and say, god damn all this that they've brought down on us, we are brave and good even though we are selfish and kill each other and kill ourselves, we are the people born to kill and die and weep in dark rooms and love in dark rooms, and wait, and wait and wait and wait. we are the people. we are nothing more.

we are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting it is as if the sun were a mind that has given up on us.

This future running toward us paralyzes the wallet and the brain.

I am waiting to live, waiting to die.

if there is light it will find you. — Charles Bukowski, from "the harder you try," The People Look Like Flowers . (Ecco; First Edition edition(March 27, 2007)

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

I felt terrible. The poor had a right to fuck their way through their bad dreams. Sex and drink, and maybe love, was all they had.

there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.

nessuno trova mai quello giusto.

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

I always felt it would pass. I listened to the charges against me knowing some of them to be true but certainly not important enough to become the target of violence, envy, vengeance. I thought it would surely pass.

he still couldn't write or what he wrote didn't work because that tremendous brave optimism that buoyed everybody up so well during the depression just turned to sugar water during good times.