Charles Bukowski Quotes About Fighting

Quotes about: Fighting

• I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading
  anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it
  kept the heart alive.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Heart, Fighting

• If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.

  Charles Bukowski

  Laughter, Fighting, Night

  "Fictional character: Henry Chinaski". "Factotum", www.imdb.com. 2005.

• to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fighting, Minutes

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems”, p.43, Harper Collins

• But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fighting, Simple, Want

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.11, Harper Collins

• Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

  Charles Bukowski

  Nice, Fighting, Names

• If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fighting, Trying, Alive

• We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes

  Charles Bukowski

  Country, War, Hero

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.475, Canongate Books

• Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Being Alone, Fighting

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.43, Harper Collins

• as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Fighting, Promise

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.43, Harper Collins

• We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fighting, Men, Fire

  Source: bukowski.net

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