Charles Bukowski Quotes

...the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn’t cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

Human it is to have compassion on the unhappy.

The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.

We are not by nature cruel.

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.

You don't have to be a believer in Jesus Christ to be a gracious individual and understand that everybody messes up and that most are looking for a second chance.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

Who will not mercy unto others show, How can he mercy ever hope to have?

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

Remember: in the end, it is the merciful who obtain mercy.

Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.

And it is the Lord, it is Jesus, Who is my judge. Therefore I will try always to think leniently of others, that He may judge me leniently, or rather not at all, since He says: "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged.

Mercy is stronger than your sword.

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.

Nothing fosters courage like a clear grasp of grace... & nothing fosters fear like an ignorance of mercy

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.

Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.