Charles Bukowski Quotes

Seems like just yesterday, you were a part of me. I used to stand so tall, I used to be so strong; your arms around me tight, everything felt so right - unbreakable, like nothing could go wrong. Now I can't breathe. No, I can't sleep; I'm barely hanging on. Here I am, once again, I'm torn into pieces. Can't deny it, can't pretend, just thought you were the one. Broken up, deep inside, but you won't get to see the tears I cry.

I was terribly wounded by my wife's death.

When David left me I became totally brokenhearted.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

I never know what to tell them. I mean, there's nothing you can say to make a person stop hurting. Half the time, I just feel like telling them the truth. I'd say that for 3 months, you're going to feel worse than you've ever felt and you cope as best you can. And that after 6 months, the pain isn't so bad, but it still hurts more than you think it will. And even after years, you still find yourself thinking about the person you lost and get sad about it. And you still miss them all the time.

My wife and I went back to the hotel where we spent our wedding night. Only this time, I stayed in the bathroom and cried.

Now I know that grief is a whetstone that sharpens all your love, all your happiest memories, into blades that tear you apart from within.

On the beach, Roran stood alone, watching them go. Then he threw back his head and uttered a long, aching cry, and the night echoed with the sound of his loss.

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

When my dog Buster died, I couldn't get over it. I was in bits.

People identify with being heartbroken. We've all been heartbroken, haven't we? I've been dumped, and it feels horrible.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

'I Know You Care' is really personal and fragile for me. For me, it's about losing a family member and also about a breakup. It's about this idea of losing someone for good.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

When you love someone, and you've lost that one, then nothing really matters.

I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.

Grief is like a moving river, so that's what I mean by it's always changing. It's a strange thing to say because I'm at heart an optimistic person, but I would say in some ways it just gets worse. It's just that the more time that passes, the more you miss someone.

There's been times when I've had heartbreaking moments and I'm like, 'I can't believe you said that,' or 'I can't believe you did that'. And it hurts, it still hurts, and it'll always hurt, but I've never had somebody that I truly cared about just walk out on me, whether it was a boyfriend, or an aunt, mom or dad.

It was the saddest day of my life.

I was a pretty heartbroken 13-year-old. That was the year my grandmother died and my parents split up.

Heartbreak is a real thing.

A loss of a great friend is traumatic and emotionally tough.

I understand the power of sorrow, and I understand how far it can take us from ourselves if we let it.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.