Life Quotes by Charles Bukowski

“that's what kills a man: lack of change.”

— Charles Bukowski

Fiction is an improvement on life

— Charles Bukowski

“I love you but don't know what to do.”

— Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

— Charles Bukowski

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

— Charles Bukowski

“Life is and is not a gentle bore.”

— Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell.

— Charles Bukowski

“sometimes it's hard to know what to do.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.”

— Charles Bukowski

“The whole world is a sack of shit ripping open. I can´t save it.”

— Charles Bukowski

“La muerte les llega a los que esperan y a los que no.”

— Charles Bukowski

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

— Charles Bukowski

“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”

— Charles Bukowski

“it does seem the more we drink the better the words go.”

— Charles Bukowski

And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

— Charles Bukowski

“Life wore a man out, wore a man thin. Tomorrow would be a better day.”

— Charles Bukowski

“sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone are the dead rattling the walls that close us in.”

— Charles Bukowski

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

— Charles Bukowski

“She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer…

— Charles Bukowski

“age is no crime but the shame of a deliberately wasted life among so many deliberately wasted lives is.”

— Charles Bukowski

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better…

— Charles Bukowski

It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile…

— Charles Bukowski

whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just…

— Charles Bukowski

“Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I’ve got several degrees. Call me Mr.”

— Charles Bukowski

But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the…

— Charles Bukowski

“There are still things to be handle; there will always be things to be handled. Nobody ever gets caught up and finished…

— Charles Bukowski

“The whole college scene was soft. They never told you what to expect out there in the real world. They just crammed…

— Charles Bukowski

A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a…

— Charles Bukowski

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my…

— Charles Bukowski

“we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecue we are unwanted and burning we are…

— Charles Bukowski

“It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on…

— Charles Bukowski

“peace of mind and heart arrives when we accept what is: having been born into this strange life we must accept the…

— Charles Bukowski

“invent yourself and then reinvent yourself, don't swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent yourself and stay out of…

— Charles Bukowski

“there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather while say flopping…

— Charles Bukowski

“And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now…

— Charles Bukowski

I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and…

— Charles Bukowski

“Writing was never work for me. It had been the same for as long as I could remember: turn on the radio…

— Charles Bukowski

“I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten why or where or when it happened and…

— Charles Bukowski

Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It…

— Charles Bukowski

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what…

— Charles Bukowski