I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
Charles BukowskiRead
But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the presence and energy of a person, suggesting they have a significant impact on those around them.
In this quote, Charles Bukowski emphasizes the essence of a person who exudes vitality, indicating that their mere presence is impactful. It suggests that vibrant individuals have a unique ability to make their existence felt, leaving an impression on everyone around them through their energy and zest for life.
In practice
This quote can be used to describe a person's infectious energy at a gathering.
I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns
The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, canβt sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I donβt want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.
Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
These memories sustained him, but not so easily. Too often they reminded him of where he was when he last summoned them. They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Before prison, before the war, before the sight of a corpse became a banality.
Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
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