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Quotes About Despair

I'm the vampire of my own heart— One of those utter derelicts Condemned to eternal laughter, But who can no longer smile!
~ Charles Baudelaire
Seek my heart no longer; the beasts have eaten it.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Rather than implore a tear of the world, Alive, I'd invite the crows To bleed my tainted carcass.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Elin bayg?n göÄŸsümde geziyor; aray???n BoÅŸ, sevgilim, oras? yaÄŸmalanm?? bir yerdi Y?rt?c? diÅŸleri, t?rnaklar?yla kad?n?n. Aramay?n yüreÄŸimi art?k; hayvanlar yedi. YüreÄŸim y?k?k bir saray kalabal?klar?ndan; İçmeler, adam öldürmeler, kavgalar dolu! - Bir korku yüzüyor ç?plak göÄŸsünüzü saran!..
~ Charles Baudelaire
Ma perché piange? Ella, perfetta beltà che metterebbe a' suoi piedi, vinto, il genere umano? Qual misterioso male rode l'atletico suo fianco? - Ella piange, insensata, perché ha vissuto! e perché vive! Ma ciò che soprattutto deplora, ciò che le fa fremere tutta quanta, gli è che l'indomani, ahimè! sarà forza vivere ancora! Domani, dopo domani e sempre! - come noi!
~ Charles Baudelaire
Quando ho riaperto gli occhi pieni di fuoco,ho visto l'orrore del buco in cui vivo e,rientrato in me stesso, ho sentito il pungolo delle preoccupazioni; l'orologio a pendolo dai funebri accenti crudelmente suonava mezzogiorno, e il cielo riversava oscurità sul tristte mondo intirizzito
~ Charles Baudelaire
Aquel que nunca se despertó en un lecho anónimo, al lado de un rostro que ya no volverá a ver; y no salió de un burdel al alba, con ganas de tirarse a un río por asco físico de la existencia, se ha perdido algo.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Naista ei ole olemassa. Likainen valkovuodon löyhkä. Ja koska hän ei ole tottunut hellyyteen, hän ei osaa miellyttää. Sitä hän ei tee koskaan.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Quiénes son los infortunados a quien la tarde no calma, y toman, como los búhos, la llegada de la noche por señal de aquelarre?
~ Charles Baudelaire
It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
~ Charles Baudelaire
We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes
~ Charles Bukowski
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
~ Charles Bukowski
she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty
~ Charles Bukowski
It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
~ Charles Bukowski
I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
~ Charles Bukowski
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
I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
~ Charles Bukowski
Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.
~ Charles Bukowski
Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible and nothing can change that; neither new girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or God.
~ Charles Bukowski
the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
~ 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 more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned 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.
~ Charles Bukowski
Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.
~ Charles Bukowski
I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
~ Charles Bukowski
love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
~ Charles Bukowski