Pyro’s Den discussion

Sometimes we need motivation or a little something to get cheered up.

“You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” -A.A. Mine

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” -Helen Keller

"You have to die a few times before you can really
live."
Charles Bukowski

"there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant."
Charles Bukowski

"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first."
Charles Bukowski

"Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul."
Charles Bukowski

"nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it."
Charles Bukowski

sorry! i love Bukoski. lol

His quotes are deep.

have you read anything by him? i recommend you do if you haven't.

I haven't

“Winning is fun, but those moments that you can touch someone’s life in a very positive way
are better.” -Tim Howard Soccer Player

“If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.” -Guy Finley Writer

more Bukowski because why not? lol

"nothing can save
you
except
writing.
it keeps the walls
from
failing."
— Charles Bukowski

"writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers."
— Charles Bukowski

Good quote Sassy.

"Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass."
— Charles Bukowski (Factotum)

lol

"Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell."
— Charles Bukowski (Women)

Lol

you need to read Bukowski, Tristan and anyone else who hasn't.

I do Sassy.

And my personal favorite


“Don't change for anyone. Kindly tell them to fuck off.” -Tristan Hutchinson

Tristan wrote: "And my personal favorite


“Don't change for anyone. Kindly tell them to fuck off.” -Tristan Hutchinson"

i like that one too : D

Lol :)

"While everybody else is opening up their presents, they're opening up their wrists." -Gremlins, Kate Beringer.

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -Ghandi

“Life is so short you can't waste even a
day subscribing to what someone thinks
you can do versus knowing what you can do.”

- Virgil Abloh

"sometimes darkness can show you the light"

Disturbed- The Light

So very true.

“If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.” -Guy Finley

"To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself."
- Anne Rice

a tribute to a great author.

“Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.”
-Albert Schweitzer Theologian

“I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“Without literature, life is hell.”
― Charles Bukowski


as well without music

“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
― Charles Bukowski

“The Laughing Heart

your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.”
― Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

sorry! i love Bukowski. lol

“The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

"Do or do not there is no try." - Yoda

"The Purpose of Our Lives is to be Happy." - Dalai Lama

so true Billy.

very interesting quote Billy.

So true Billy, great quote.

"Evil is a point of view." -Lestat

"Even a few changes you make can turn out to be the greatst change in your life"

"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." William Shakespeare

"I have walked down the paths of light and dark, how many people could say they have truly experienced all life has to offer?"

Tristan Hutchinson (Redacted)

aging isnt particully a good or interesting subject

The quote I wrote had nothing to do with aging. A serial killer says it.