Charles Bukowski Quotes

I've been beaten, I've been bruised, I was left for dead as well.

I never imagined what it would be like to spend a 12-hour day crying and covered in blood.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

He hit me 18 times while I was in the act of falling.

I am a woman like any other and ugly things happen to me like any other women.

Take your time and strike a man so that he feels he is dying.

I have seen things in my life that have broken me in spirit.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

My mom got shot. My dad got shot. Some of the craziest stuff. All that happened to me.

I got beat up my whole life.

Was it hard? I hope she didn't die hard.' Sethe shook her head. 'Soft as cream. Being alive was the hard part.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

Life ain't fair. It ain't. Not never. It's pointless and stupid and there's only suffering and pain and people who want to hurt you. You can't love nothing or no one cuz it'll all be taken away or ruined and you'll be left alone and constantly having to fight, constantly having to run just to stay alive.

As I view it, spending over two years in a cage is far worse than having your face pounded and dealing with a black eye for a week or two.

It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

What are they going to do to me that they haven't done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What's left for them to take?

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

I never had a true childhood.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

I've seen the hell these people go through.