Charles Bukowski Quotes

Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

But just as a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing, a little bit of energy, in the hands of someone hell-bent on suicide, is a very dangerous thing.

I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry.

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

One was Texas medicine, the other was just railroad gin, and like a fool I mixed them.

I've done 12 in one night, you know what I mean - loads of them... Really, in the long run, it's a safe pill and it ain't doing you no harm. I don't see the problem.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

The term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result

You're dealing with people who are suiciding slowly. You've got to get to the bottom of what is psychologically motivating them to self-destruct.

All my life I have had the utmost admiration for suicides. I have always considered them superior to me in every way.

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.

If you are home, and you got no place to go, and you want to, just blow yourself up ... Go ahead ... The drugs themselves ... There's a price for doing stuff to yourself.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

Everyone has good cause for suicide, or at least it seems that way to those who search for it. (74)

You can drink yourself to death, you can smoke yourself to death, you can eat yourself to death.

When you're thirty-five, you can't take as much booze ... and I always got a little violent on drink...So it was kind of self-destructive suicide side of me, which is resolving itself for the better, I believe, because I never enjoyed it.

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Have you made any plans? Take an overdose, slash my wrists then hang myself. All those things together? It couldn't possibly be misconstrued as a cry for help.