Drink Quotes by Charles Bukowski

“there’s all that time to eat drink and wait on death like everybody else.”

— Charles Bukowski

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

— Charles Bukowski

It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.

— Charles Bukowski

One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

— Charles Bukowski

That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing.

— Charles Bukowski

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas,…

— Charles Bukowski

“We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live…

— Charles Bukowski

“the world is better without them. only the plants and the animals are true comrades. I drink to them and with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks…

— Charles Bukowski

“I walk over and fill her drink: “you got class, doll, you’re not like the others…” she likes that and I like…

— Charles Bukowski

I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try…

— Charles Bukowski

“We are here to drink beer. We are here to end war. We are here to laugh at the odds, and live…

— Charles Bukowski

“Her one drink had Cecilia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It…

— Charles Bukowski

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you.…

— Charles Bukowski

“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt…

— Charles Bukowski

Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different,…

— Charles Bukowski

“You could sit in there all day drinking coffee and they never asked you to leave no matter how bad you looked.…

— Charles Bukowski

My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected…

— Charles Bukowski

I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any…

— Charles Bukowski

in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot…

— Charles Bukowski

alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women…

— Charles Bukowski

I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly…

— Charles Bukowski

“The morning interviews were always the hardest, hung-over, trying to get the beer down. No, I have no idea why I am…

— Charles Bukowski

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept…

— Charles Bukowski

“there’s nothing to discuss there’s nothing to remember there’s nothing to forget it’s sad and it’s not sad seems the most sensible…

— Charles Bukowski

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been…

— Charles Bukowski

“Look, barkeeper, I'm a peaceful man. Fairly normal. I don't sniff armpits or wear ladies' underwear. But everywhere I go, somebody is…

— Charles Bukowski

Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

— Charles Bukowski

I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!

— Charles Bukowski

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a…

— Charles Bukowski

Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and…

— Charles Bukowski

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas,…

— Charles Bukowski

I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or…

— Charles Bukowski