Charles Bukowski Quotes

Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

We die, and we do not die.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.

Lies here food for the worms yet the work shall not be lost.

I would rather be ashes than dust.

You live you die and death not ends it.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

Death is a false fear. When it is here, you won't be. When it's not, you are here.

She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

Afterlife, in my mind, is pretty much nothing. This is it. This is what we get, for me.

One believes that if nothing happens, one disappears. That is not true.

Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.