Charles Bukowski Quotes

Pain is an event ... Suffering, on the other hand, is the nightmare reliving of unscrutinized and unmetabolized pain.

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

I felt along with her - not the physical pain, of course, but all her mental anguish. You can't be detached. She needed to have someone who understood what was happening in her mind.

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

The reminder that there are people who have worse troubles than you is not an effective pain-killer.

Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt.

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

But I saw the pain and sadness in everything, and swirled it round my mouth like a fine wine.

There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

The suffering itself is not so bad; it's the resentment against suffering that is the real pain.

There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

When you're in pain, tomorrow doesn't exist - just the pain - and the only thing that you want in the world is for it to go away.

Pain didn't ever really stop, he thought; it just changed forms.

Pain is to be endured. It ends or it does not.

When you truly know the meaning of the word love, you will also know the meaning of the word pain.

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls