Charles Bukowski Quotes

After my best friend jumped off the bridge, I knew that I was next. So-Paris. With forty dollars and a one-way ticket.

I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)

If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem.

Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself.

Nowadays, suicide is just a way of disappearing. It is carried out timidly, quietly, and falls flat. It is no longer an action, only a submission.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

The problem with suicide is that it seems so flamboyant. It's camp. You have to be a bit of a drama queen to ever seriously consider it.

I don't persuade to suicide.

There's nothing beautiful about somebody killing themselves.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

Suicide is the only way out.

I am not even alive enough to know how to kill myself

I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?

I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.

Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

The man, who in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.

Don't untie me," she said, "no matter what happens or how much I plead. I'll want to go straight over the edge and drown myself." "Are you trying to tempt me?" "Ha-ha.

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.

Four years ago on this very day I tried to take my own life. And I said, "Zach, do it in front of your co-workers and end the misery." I don't know how many of you ever tried to jump off of a Pizza Hut, but you'll just get a sprained ankle out of the deal. Then you'll have to go back inside, and serve crazy bread.