there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late
Charles Bukowski
Related There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than the... FLEUR ADCOCK It's a breath you took too late. It's a death that's worse than fate. ELVIS COSTELLO It's a heartache Nothing but a heartache Hits you when it's too late Hits you when you'r... BONNIE TYLER It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is wh... MITCH ALBOM I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an ech... EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths wher... RAINER MARIA RILKE It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is wo... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Trust too much Hope too much Love way too much Take the pain. Because regret hur... JAMIE HOLT SHERFY Those who have witnessed executions say there is no sound worse than the weeping of mother watching ... CAROLEE DEAN Dope. They sell that shit to schoolkids. It's worse than that. How's that? Schoo... CORMAC MCCARTHY But bid life seize the present? It lives less in the present Than in the future always, ... ROBERT FROST We can't lose you," she said after a few moments of awkward as hell silence. "You have to understand... JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT When I think of how many people in this world have it worse than I do, I realize just how bles... SHANNAN LEA ... You are here again, so realistic, just, the golden dawn takes you away ZORICA SAVRON Worse even than your maddening song, your silence." - SYLVIA PLATH To know the way, we go the way, we do the way. The way we do, the things we do... BENJAMIN HOFF To jump over centuries In one step is impossible. Jump too high or far, You’ll b... DEJAN STOJANOVIC They are not demons, not devils... Worse than that. They are people. ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI WHEN YOU SNEAK IN LATE AT NIGHT NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TIP TOE THE THE FLOOR CREAKS LOUDER... QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and th... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer... PABLO NERUDA Why we don’t feel sorry for killing thousands of mosquitoes every day? Are they useless or t... M.F. MOONZAJER Too often children are treated as tradeable commodities in relationships" RjS RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN I promise you I will try harder to be better. I have battled with things ... TYLER KNOTT GREGSON Closed eyes can't sacrifice a third time i may never know A dreamer's dream GREG C WARNER it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom CHARLES BUKOWSKI who are you really? you are not a name or a height, or a weight or a gende... M.K There is nothing prettier in the whole wide world than a girl in love wit... ATTICUS POETRY Its hard to stay up. Its been a long long day And you've got the sandman at your door. Bu... CRAIG FERGUSON And the days are all dust and the only thing worse than losing the trust of a lover i... KATE TEMPEST Work is satisfying. Staying up late until your eyes beg you for sleep, sitting constantly... VISHAL OSTWAL Let nothing disturb you, Let nothing frighten you, All things are passing away: God n... TERESA OF ÁVILA when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door! They are in haste and ca... HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Sun Going South In late sunshine I wander troubled. Restless I wander in autumn ... URSULA K. LE GUIN When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... DR. SEUSS Technically, you don't pay me. And technically, most of what I do is "think." I...rr... HOWARD TAYLER i smoke and i drink and every time i blink i have a tiny dream but as bad as i am ... ANI DIFRANCO Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too ... THOMAS GRAY Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness to... THOMAS GRAY The mind; it often clings to the road it knows, but there is a certain... NEENA H BRAR The Mistake With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactl... JAMES FENTON It's a fact—everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepes... VERA NAZARIAN I want to leave a mark. But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. JOHN GREEN We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life MEGAN MCCAFFERTY Is it too bold to point out that there is nothing in the ten commandments about protectin... A.J. BEIRENS Her close friends have gathered. Lord, ain't it a shame Grieving together Sharing the... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I think of you often and make no outward show, But what it means to lose you, no one will ... ANON. I often repeat repeat myself, I often repeat repeat. I don't don't know why know why, JACK PRELUTSKY alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in the... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I’ve seen most of what there is to be afraid of in this world, and to tell you the truth, KENDARE BLAKE Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is n... LAO TZU The heart itself is only a small vessel, yet dragons are there, and lions, there are poisonou... MAKARIOS THE GREAT When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, ... ANON. Where are You Now? I was there whilst you cried, I was there to comfort you with smile, LUISA NATASHA PARKER DON'T SAY, DO Do not say things You think I want to hear. Instead, S... SUZY KASSEM On a Fine Morning” in Poems of the Past and the Present (1901) WHENCE comes Solac... THOMAS HARDY But you love to play the good man, don't you? Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villai... JOE ABERCROMBIE I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often d... CHARLES BUKOWSKI But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I must confess, that my heart is like a frozen lake, only pretends to be firm, to sh... AKASH MANDAL Picasso said he'd paint with his own wet tongue on the dusty floor of a jail cell if he had to.... ANDREA GIBSON If an eagle gives you a feather, keep it safe. Remember: that giants sleep too soundly; that NEIL GAIMAN Late Fragment And did you get what you wanted from this life, even so? I... RAYMOND CARVER ADULTHOOD: IT CAN EASILY BE missed, mishandled or WORSE mistaken FOR SOMETHING ROBERT WESLEY MILLER The evening sky is gold and vast. I’m soothed by April’s cool caress. You’re late. T... ANNA AKHMATOVA and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again CHARLES BUKOWSKI Soul Alone by Hannah Baker I meet your eyes you don't even see me You hardly re... JAY ASHER Chipmunks jump, and greensnakes slither. Rather burst than not be with her. DONALD HALL My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigi... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We often fear that the Revolution needed is too big for what we can give. Too much change is re... LUCY H. PEARCE So this is it. You are scored on my heart, Clark. You were from the first day you walked in, with yo... JOJO MOYES Too often our visions of the future are dull and impotent like a hammer beating the water. HARLEY KING I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color, but I’ve seen flowers bloom a... ANDREA GIBSON It’s the end. It’s the end of the civilization. We’re going down. No, it’s sure n... M.T. ANDERSON the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, CHARLES BUKOWSKI I get so breathless, when you call my name, I've often wondered, do you feel the same? The... CORINNE BAILEY RAE The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, thou... MARY OLIVER May you find serenity and tranquility in a worl... SANDRA STURTZ HAUSS Love me for what I am Not what I try to be. Love me for what I am. I am A person... WILLIAM FINN This is an ode to life. The anthem of the world. For as there are billions of differe... KAMAND KOJOURI In hundreds of years of wish fulfillment, never once to the demon’s bereavement, had a w... A. LEE BROCK What has started you on this?" I asked. "We were talking about the holidays." "Lo... CYNTHIA LAWRENCE When it comes to love do not ever settle for anything less than magical. SANOBER KHAN You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity The most modern European is you Pope ... GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say... CHARLES BUKOWSKI One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept s... MARY OLIVER It's not easy, but do it anyway It's not easy to love, when you get resentment in re... HENNA SOHAIL It's not easy, but do it anyway It's not easy to love, when you get resentment in re... HENNA SOHAIL Friends are a strange, volatile, contradictory, yet sticky phenomenon. They are made, crafted, shape... VERA NAZARIAN And brilliant days come alive, with you, around but the things we d... ANDREA KOEHLE JONES ...mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly." "How do yo... NORTON JUSTER Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth Death ... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: To every man upon this earth ... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY "Conversation" God and I in space alone . . . and nobody else in view . . . "And wh... ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen LANGSTON HUGHES People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway. I... MOTHER TERESA Remember The Dream You have a choice Your heart will know You gotta look back s... JAMES INGRAM The Blue Bird from The Last Night of the Earth Poems there’s a bluebird in my hear... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Be honest: Are you surprised that I didn't realize sooner? Are you surprised that it took me so long... LAUREN OLIVER
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI So be careful when you bend over. CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are human beings about there is never going to be any peace for... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with belief, deluded myself with love tricked myself w... CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had something to do with the politics of the thing. CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but... CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp. I am. still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication. CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p... CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i... CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know. CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough... CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe... CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking up and down this room smoking my cigars taking hits of my <... CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca... CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the... CHARLES BUKOWSKI