Charles Bukowski Quotes

Misery is a match that never goes out.

Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

People die because they find living too painful.

Pain is never permanent.

Suffering does not change its face.

The most feared thing should be death, but after a lot of rumination, I have settled to fear incessant pain. It is not a 'screaming hysterically' kind of fear but a silently lurking one.

I feel hurt and pain times a million, all the time.

This is painful and it will be for a long time.

My pain's not ashamed to repeat itself

There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony.

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.

The pain is unrelenting; one does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

It was the worst hurt he had ever known.

When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.

Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

what is the worst pain? To me, it's always the pain that is present.