You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense Quotes

“regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.”

“there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times we will know it... will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.”

“I have just listened to this symphony which Mozart dashed off in one day and it had enough wild and crazy joy to last forever, whatever forever is Mozart came as close as possible to that.”

“agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.”

“we only have ourselves to go on, and it’s enough...”

“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted- stretched there upon my bed in the dark looking upward at the ceiling I get what many will consider an obnoxious thought: it’s still nice to be Bukowski.”

“everything is so sweetly awful, so continuously and sweetly awful: the art of consummation: life eating life...”

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

“I am sad for the dead and I am sad for the living”

“thinking, the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.”

“you know the old saying: it’s all a matter of taste and either they’re right and I’m wrong or I’m right and they’re all wrong or maybe it’s some place in between.”

“nothing matters and we know nothing matters and that matters...”

“it was one of those times where nothing was lost because nothing had ever been found.”

“we have more than ever the selfish wants of power the disregard for the weak the old the impoverished the helpless. we are replacing want with war salvation with slavery.”

“you get what you can, try to keep that and add to it if possible.”

“naturally, we are all caught in downmoods, it’s a matter of chemical imbalance and an existence which, at times, seems to forbid any real chance at happiness.”

“all she wants is what she always wanted, only it’s getting further and further away.”

“some men never die and some men never live but we’re all alive tonight.”

“to make a thing true all you’ve got to do is believe.”

“I love you but don’t know what to do.”