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Quotes About Fear

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people are stricken wth fear. They fear failure so much that they fail.
~ Charles Bukowski
I think I'm going to die," the old man said. "I don't want to die. I'm afraid to die …" "You've lived long enough, you old fart!" muttered my father.
~ Charles Bukowski
Still afraid of pain behind my four-day beard.
~ Charles Bukowski
This future running toward us paralyzes the wallet and the brain.
~ Charles Bukowski
She was beginning to understand. Winners didn't shoot off their mouths. They were afraid of getting murdered in the parking lot. After the fourth race, a $22.80 winner, he turned again and told Katherine, "I had that one, ten across." She turned away. "His face is yellow, Hank. Did you see his eyes? He's sick." "He's sick on the dream. We're all sick on the dream, that's why we're out here.
~ Charles Bukowski
I stared at the phone. Deathly damned thing. But you needed it to call 911. You never knew.
~ Charles Bukowski
Quando tutto sarà finito sono sicuro che mi verrà concesso un minuto per ripensare a tutte le volte che volevo urlare cosa sentivo, ma sono stato zitto per paura di non essere capito, e rimpiangerò gli obbiettivi che ho abbandonato perché il timore di fallire mi ha impedito di perseguirli. Questa vita è una puttana e probabilmente mi spezzerà il cuore, ma cazzo, sono innamorato.
~ Charles Bukowski
I am asked to hide my viewpoint from them for fear of their fear.
~ Charles Bukowski
agony can kill or agony can sustain life but peace is always horrifying
~ Charles Bukowski
and we were afraid then that all throughout our lives things like that would happen, that nobody wanted anybody to be strong and beautiful like that, that others would never allow it, and that many people would have to die.
~ Charles Bukowski
every man is afraid of being queer. I get a little tired of it. maybe we should all become queers and relax.
~ Charles Bukowski
WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.
~ Charles Bukowski
but now it's the waiting on death. it's not death that's the problem, it's the waiting.
~ Charles Bukowski
do you drink because you are afraid of life? the interviewer asked. disgusted with life is more like it, said the writer, and with you.
~ 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
You scared? asked Garson. Yes, I said, but what about?
~ Charles Bukowski
What foolishness makes us tweak the nose of Death continually?
~ Charles Bukowski
The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
~ Charles Bukowski
are you paranoid?" he asks. "of course. what sane man is not?
~ Charles Bukowski
Todas aquelas pessoas. O que estão fazendo? O que estão pensando? Todos nós vamos morrer, que circo! Só isso deveria fazer com que amássemos uns aos outros, mas não faz. Somos aterrorizados e esmagados pelas trivialidades, somos devorados por nada.
~ Charles Bukowski
you have no idea, cousin, how many men can do it but won't.
~ Charles Bukowski
Dehsetin dehset olduguna inandiginiz anda daha az dehsete dusersiniz.
~ Charles Bukowski
Karayolunda seyreden arabalar?n ???klar?n? görebiliyorum. Sonu gelmeyen bir ???k ak???. Bu kadar insan. Ne yaparlar? Ne düÅŸünürler? Hepimiz öleceÄŸiz, hepimiz, ne sirk! Bunu bilmek birbirimizi daha çok sevmemiz için yeterli bir neden olmal?, ama deÄŸil. Son derece önemsiz ÅŸeyler bizi dehÅŸete sürükleyip dümdüz ediyor, yutuyor...
~ Charles Bukowski
Tommy je zakora?io prema meni. Izvukao sam luger iz ladice i uperio ga u njegovu prekomjernu golemost.
~ Charles Bukowski