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Quotes About Fate

nobody ever finds the one
~ Charles Bukowski
Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.
~ Charles Bukowski
there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.
~ Charles Bukowski
Ann, I love you. I hope my car starts. I hope the sink isn't plugged up. I'm glad I didn't fuck a groupie. I'm glad I'm not very good at getting into bed with strange females. I'm glad I'm an idiot. I'm glad I don't know anything. I'm glad I haven't been murdered. When I look at my hands and they are still on my wrists, I think to myself, I am lucky.
~ Charles Bukowski
the gods seldom give but so quickly take.
~ Charles Bukowski
All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
~ Charles Bukowski
as long as there are human beings about there is never going to be any peace for any individual upon this earth (or anywhere else they might escape to). all you can do is maybe grab ten lucky minutes here or maybe an hour there. something is working toward you right now, and I mean you and nobody but you.
~ Charles Bukowski
don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
~ Charles Bukowski
well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you
~ Charles Bukowski
where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die
~ Charles Bukowski
There will always be something to ruin our lives. It all depends on what or which finds us first. You're always ripe and ready to be taken.
~ Charles Bukowski
from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
~ Charles Bukowski
our sins are manufactured in heaven to create our own hell.
~ Charles Bukowski
Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?
~ Charles Bukowski
theres no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one.
~ Charles Bukowski
sometimes you die sometimes you don't.
~ Charles Bukowski
if I had met you I would probably have been unfair to you or you to me. it was best like this.
~ Charles Bukowski
Well, we lost it, and that's all there is to that.
~ Charles Bukowski
but what can I make of love when we are all born at a different time and place and only meet through a trick of centuries and a chance three steps to the left? you
~ Charles Bukowski
Listen, friend, he said, this whole game is just one big deck of cards. if you want to get into the game you have to take whatever comes up in the shuffle.
~ Charles Bukowski
You only had one shot. Why be a window-washer?
~ Charles Bukowski
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. I knew that I wasn't entirely sane. I still knew, as I had as a child, that there was something strange about myself. I felt as if I were destined to be a murderer, a bank robber, a saint, a rapist, a monk, a hermit.
~ Charles Bukowski
Ako se desi nesto lose,pijes da zaboravis;ako se desi nesto lepo,pijes da proslavis;a ako se nista ne desava,pijes da bi se nesto desilo.
~ Charles Bukowski
well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you…
~ Charles Bukowski