Charles Bukowski Quotes

Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things rushed out of it, but still the heart kept beating, tough and frighteningly powerful and meaning to shrug off the rest of her and continue on its own.

I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.

I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.

The fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength

Women are the best. The toughest. The bane of my existence. And I'll forever fall for it.

True happiness means forging a strong spirit that is undefeated, no matter how trying our circumstances.

Everyone cries sometimes, Tory. There are some pains that run too deep for even the strongest to take without breaking. I don’t think any less of you for it. (Acheron)

We are strong enough to stand tall tearlessly, we are brave enough to bend to cry, and we are sad enough to know that we must laugh again.

It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance.

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

Sadness doesn't equal weakness, sweetheart. If anything, it shows the love you have inside of you, and nothing stronger in this world exists.

What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling the different parts of me up and in like a shoelace. I feel suffocated, but at least I feel strong.

His heart, the war. Her face, the battlefield.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

There is no shame in what you are feeling, Harry,' said Dumbledore's voice. 'On the contrary... the fact that you can feel pain like this is your greatest strength.

To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.