Charles Bukowski Quotes

Death is only a small interruption.

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

May you live to see the green grass growing over your grave.

Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

I shall not altogether die.

The living are just the dead on holiday

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.

My troubles are many They're deep as a well I swear there ain't no Heaven And I pray there ain't no hell But I'll never know by living only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone There'll be, one child born And a world to carry on, to carry on.

Life on earth, filled with uncertainty and change, seemed far more difficult than what lay beyond the grave.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.

We die, and we do not die.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

When you're dead, you're done.

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear. Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

For a person who is dying only eternity counts.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.

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

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

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