Charles Bukowski Quotes

I want to live. I didn't have time to die.

I didn’t go up there to die. I went up there to live.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

I'm not afraid to die. But I'm afraid to not live.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

Never fear being a petty fool it means you ain't dying

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

I'm gonna live till I die.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

You have to look life in the face, doing what you can where you can.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don't be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.

If you die, you're not a failure.

When doctors tell you that you have three weeks to live, you try to live a lifetime of moments in three weeks. But you say, 'To hell with three weeks.'