Charles Bukowski Quotes About Mercy

Quotes about: Mercy

• and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

  Charles Bukowski

  Strong, Sleep, Skills

• mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

  Charles Bukowski

  Thinking, Race, Mercy

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.58, Canongate Books

• I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Children, Believe

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