Charles Bukowski Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sometimes, Hell, Goodness

• Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

  Charles Bukowski

  Animal, Owning A Pet, Worry

• The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

  Charles Bukowski

  Hell, Things To Do, Ifs

• Without literature, life is hell.

  Charles Bukowski

  Literature, Life Is, Hell

• I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.

  Charles Bukowski

  Night, Voice, Fire

• I am not like
  other people.
  I am
  burning in hell. The hell of
  myself.

  Charles Bukowski

  People, Burning, Hell

  Charles Bukowski (2011). “New Poems Book Two”, p.117, Random House

• If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Love Is, Junk

• There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Sleep, Eye

• Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that

  Charles Bukowski

  Hell, Bother

• Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Envy, Hell

  "Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life". Book by Howard Sounes, 1998.

• I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

  Charles Bukowski

  Waiting, Shadow, Hell

• There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Believe, Thinking

• Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

  Charles Bukowski

  Men, Different, Faces

• If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.

  Charles Bukowski

  Phones, Stupidity, Phone Calls

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.27, Canongate Books

• Hell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about nothing. Getting pissed-off over anything and everything. Day by day, year by year, grinding. Instead of helping each other you just sliced away, picked at this or that. Goading. Endless goading. It became a cheap contest. And once you got into it, it became habitual. You couldn't seem to get out. You almost didn't want to get out. And then you did get out. All the way.

  Charles Bukowski

  Years, Wife, Pissed Off

• Love is a Dog from Hell.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Love Is, Hell

  1977 Title of book.

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