H.W. Charles Quotes

If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind.

Probably they had good reason for omitting it. A profane mind might make a jest of an apostle half seas over, and ridicule an apostolic gate-keeper who couldn't keep his head above water.

Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.

God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.

How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.

Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS

Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

Something that never happens anywhere at any time.

i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.

You were destroyed by what you befriended.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

The human body is mostly blood and mystery and sadness.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

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.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.

...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.

People don't do me much good.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.

I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

Angels, we have grown apart.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

I do not like to work and have no trade but i do like to eat, so this is basic, the basic training of slaves to fear.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.