“Without literature, life is hell.”— Charles Bukowski Related Quotes “This life required scars,…Some were on the outside, and some they carried on the inside. But scars weren’t shameful. They meant survival. They meant putting in work. They meant sticking around and getting through the hard stuff just on the chance that things could get better.”— T.S. Joyce “We are the wilderness withinScreaming out for true expression.Even when we’re sleeping,There’s no escape from this obsession.”— Jay Woodman “Everyone hears only what he understands.”— Goethe