Bukowski Quotes by Charles Bukowski

“Are you anti-black? I'm anti-everything.”

— Charles Bukowski

“the gods seldom give but so quickly take.”

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

“the gods play no favorites.”

— Charles Bukowski

“My cock was hard, but my spirit wasn't in it.”

— Charles Bukowski

“I run with the hunted.”

— Charles Bukowski

“crawled like a blind slug into the web”

— Charles Bukowski

“regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.”

— Charles Bukowski

“He fell off the table like a crab looking for the sea.”

— Charles Bukowski

“one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.”

— Charles Bukowski

“the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter.”

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

“What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

“she slammed the door and was gone. I looked at the closed door and at the doorknob and strangely I didn't feel…

— Charles Bukowski

“I didn't know who to believe but one thing I do know: when a man is living many claim relationships that are…

— Charles Bukowski

“I found the best thing I could do was just to type away at my own work and let the dying die…

— Charles Bukowski

“when I drive the freeways I see the soul of humanity of my city and it's ugly, ugly, ugly: the living have…

— Charles Bukowski

“I see a bright portion under the overhead light that shades into darkness and then into darker darkness and I can't see…

— Charles Bukowski

“What kind of d*ck are you? Celine asked. -The best in L.A. -Yes? What's L.A. stand for? -Lost as*holes.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in…

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

“The area dividing the brain and the soul Is affected in many ways by experience -- Some lose all mind and become…

— Charles Bukowski

“when you're young a pair of female high-heeled shoes just sitting alone in the closet can fire your bones; when you're old…

— Charles Bukowski

“it is so dark now with the sadness of people they were tricked, they were taught to expect the ultimate when nothing…

— Charles Bukowski

“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched…

— Charles Bukowski

“when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric” I know what he meant I know what he wanted: to be completely alive…

— Charles Bukowski

“girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would…

— Charles Bukowski

“I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee,…

— Charles Bukowski

“the best part was pulling down the shades stuffing the doorbell with rags putting the phone in the refrigerator and going to…

— Charles Bukowski

“Whether I was a genius or not did not so much concern me as the fact that I simply did not want…

— Charles Bukowski

“Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of…

— Charles Bukowski

“unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, it was never meant to be any other…

— Charles Bukowski

“when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked about how we'd like to die and we…

— Charles Bukowski

“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a…

— Charles Bukowski

“The dead do not need aspirin or sorrow, I suppose. but they might need rain. not shoes but a place to walk.…

— Charles Bukowski

“We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to themselves, in my lsi other…

— Charles Bukowski

“To ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on…

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski