People Quotes by Charles Bukowski

“People lack originality.”

— Charles Bukowski

People do too much. They say too much.

— Charles Bukowski

People don't do me much good.

— Charles Bukowski

Sundays kill more people than bombs.

— Charles Bukowski

“she wasn't very interesting but few people are.”

— Charles Bukowski

People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

— Charles Bukowski

since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

— Charles Bukowski

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

— Charles Bukowski

I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.

— Charles Bukowski

When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.

— Charles Bukowski

“the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.”

— Charles Bukowski

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

— 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

So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for…

— Charles Bukowski

That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty…

— Charles Bukowski

People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.

— Charles Bukowski

The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with…

— Charles Bukowski

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an…

— Charles Bukowski

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe…

— Charles Bukowski

I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not…

— Charles Bukowski

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They…

— Charles Bukowski

Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away…

— Charles Bukowski

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if…

— Charles Bukowski

It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word…

— Charles Bukowski

Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers…

— Charles Bukowski

All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most…

— 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

morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move…

— Charles Bukowski

We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into…

— Charles Bukowski

I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street…

— Charles Bukowski

There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything.…

— Charles Bukowski

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible…

— Charles Bukowski

Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy…

— Charles Bukowski

The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was…

— Charles Bukowski

You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s…

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

— Charles Bukowski

“So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools.”

— Charles Bukowski