Charles Bukowski Quotes

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

The strangest whim has seized me ... After all I think I will not hang myself today.

I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit torn in bits so that the body follows.

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep

That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.

I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

I have friends who've tried suicide many times and haven't succeeded. I myself made an attempt, so I had a connection with that sort of group of people who have tried suicide at one time in their lives.

Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.

There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself. And there was one other moment when I was close to that. But even in my most jaded times, I had some hope.

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

Let teens know that suicide is almost always the result of a complex mix of factors rather than a single event such as a breakup or bullying. It can be related to a sometimes undiagnosed mental disorder such as depression.

For a long time, I didn't want to live.

Ultimately when I fell out with my parents, I hit rock bottom. I didn't care whether I lived or died to be honest with you.

Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.

They'll just cut our wrists like Cheap coupons and say that death Was on sale today.

she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about it, the other arm.

After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people who were born with that little door open, and they have to go through life knowing that they might jump through it at any moment.

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

Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

There must be a reason that these bad things happen to me. I must be dysfunctional. So why would my dad leave? Why would he kill himself? Why would I be violated? And when you're 6-years-old, you can't comprehend that. But as you get much older in life, you begin to think what's wrong with me?

There have been many times when I have been so entirely sickened of life it was very hard to work to keep on, a half dozen times I have been tempted to suicide, but I am glad I did not give way, for I have always felt that the last half of my life would somehow atone for the first half, and I still think it may ... It is not possible to live in this world without suffering unless one is a born stone. But it is also possible to have a great deal of happiness in spite of the suffering.