“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”
Variant: Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Source: Women
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Charles Bukowski555
American writer 1920–1994Related quotes
“All earth’s full rivers can not fill
The sea that drinking thirsteth still.”
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
By the Sea; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919); Old and New, Volume 5 (1872), p. 169.
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Source: Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Neil Young (1945) Canadian singer-songwriter
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Song lyrics, After the Gold Rush (1970)
Bob Ross (1942–1995) American painter, art instructor, and television host
Source: From "The Joy of Painting" Mobquotes https://mobquotes.com/bob-ross-quotes/
Billie Joe Armstrong (1972) American singer and guitarist
Reported in Matt Doeden, Green Day: Keeping Their Edge (2006), p. 23
Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995) French musicologist
Electronic Musician magazine, December 1986
Interviews
“Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…”
Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: p>Just being alive
It can really hurt
These moments given
Are a gift from time.Just let us try
To give these moments back
To those we love
To those who will survive…</p
Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization Fellowship
Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda, Quotes drawn from the poem "What is Love?"