Charles Bukowski Quotes

I've gone through hell and back.

Injuries make you stronger.

Sometimes, you find peace through misery.

Most people overcome something terrible at some point in their lives.

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner.

people are strong despite suffering, not because of it.

There is healing in the bitter cup.

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

I am not a big crier. But I'd say it was after the Mendes fight. It was not because of the fight as such. It was everything leading up to it. It had been such a tough time. When I did my knee, I had some very dark times. Life is all about ups and downs and I'd say there had been a lot of downs, but I got through it, I won and after the fight, I was standing in the shower and I was crying, just letting it all go.

Losing a basketball game hurts but when you see what you've been through, you look on it and say well if this is the worst thing that can happen to me, then I'm okay.

The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

A lot of times when you go through a very traumatic situation and it's emotionally difficult to deal with you come back spiritually stronger. It changes you in a way.

I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

We're always attracted to characters who are people we could identify with and yet are put through incredibly tortured or difficult circumstances - the idea being that you don't really know who you are until you've been tested or suffered in some way.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.