Charles Bukowski Quotes

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

I already gave my best.

We're not going to win every single one.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

It's tough to say this, but sometimes it's better if you are losing because then you don't expect anything.

It is always disappointing to obviously concede.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

You should despair and run away.

Don’t keep fighting battles that are already lost.

But what could I lose by continuing that had not already been lost?

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

The best way to guarantee a loss is to quit.

My sweetest hope is to lose hope.

I've also learned that sometimes, no matter how much you want things to work, you have to accept that sometimes they just don't.

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

I did try to win a sixth, but it was not to be.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

Accept loss forever.

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

If you can't do it, give up!

To go back means defeat.

Normally, a loss, it's hard to swallow, but you get over it sooner or later.