Charles Bukowski Quotes

Women get exhausted and beat down, and you just want to cry.

I don't think I can do this anymore.

Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad

I am more weary of life, I think, than ever I was.

Every time I'm shooting a movie I want to kill myself. Because I don't see the light in the end of the tunnel.

... too emotionally strung out.

Some days, I didn't know how I was going to make it to the next morning.

Bad news on the doorstep;I couldn’t take one more step

Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it.

And at some point, the struggle becomes too much-too tiring-and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.

I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I want to pull my hair out by the roots.

I just want to get through each day without the need to shut my eyes for 10 minutes.

A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.

I'm overwhelmed by the pain in the world; I'm affected by the news very much, and adding that to my work was becoming a little bit too much.

I wasn't even sure I'd be able to walk. I couldn't even go outside. Maybe I was just burnt crisp from the gruelling schedule I had been keeping for years.

Sadly, I haven't had a brain cell since I had children.

Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

I have no words for my reality.

No doubt, some people are quantitatively less busy than others and some much more so, but that doesn't change the shared experience: most everyone I know feels frazzled and overwhelmed most of the time.

I feel the pressure.

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

There are some moments where you're so depressed, you cannot see the way, and you're like, 'Whatever. Bite me.' I think all directors feel that way sometimes.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.