Death Quote by charles bukowski — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“it's good to have things done with”

“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”

“shot in the eye”

“it's so easy to be a poet”

“well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you”

“He died and the whole Soviet Union followed. Revmira's country, her young face, the entire course of her life had changed. Since she started at the hospital, she had sat next to more than a hundred persons to help them go, so she knew death well: the release of breath, the rattle, the calm. Her parents went the same way, one after the other. And she missed them. She had resigned herself a long time ago to missing all the people who left her.”

“The Skeleton”

“Do people look the same when they go to heaven, mommy?”

“I would rather live than die. I would rather die than survive as a monster.”

“It was this mystery, bereft now of all fear, and this beauty together that made life the endless, changing and yet changeless, thing it was. And yet mystery and loveliness alike were really only appreciable with one's legs, as it were, dangling down over into the grave.”

“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you most.”