Charles Bukowski Quotes

No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.

No one is perfect in this world, and we all have our battles, but it's the way we get back on our feet and turn it around that really counts.

Life is a beautiful struggle.

Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are.

If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack

Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

The struggle is beautiful.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.

When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

I went through an extremely trying ordeal, but I never forgot the world outside was a beautiful place.

There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.

Life can be tough sometimes. But I think it just starts with admitting, 'Okay, the world's not perfect, how do we live our lives within that and not be miserable?'

I've seen too much in life to give up.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.

The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

I'm a damaged person, but I have hope and a will to not give up.

What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time.

I've gone through terrible periods of depression. But, at the core of my being, there's a strange, out-of-place optimist. Despite what I'm feeling, I'm always able to get up and do my job. Which means the world to me.

I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.