Inspirational Quotes by Charles Bukowski

People do too much. They say too much.

— Charles Bukowski

“You gotta find what you like and let it kill you.”

— Charles Bukowski

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

— Charles Bukowski

If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

— Charles Bukowski

lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.

— Charles Bukowski

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

— Charles Bukowski

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you

— Charles Bukowski

This incompleteness is all we have.

— Charles Bukowski

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

— Charles Bukowski

The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.

— Charles Bukowski

and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.

— Charles Bukowski

The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

— Charles Bukowski

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

— 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

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

— Charles Bukowski

I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.

— Charles Bukowski

“(the whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned.) I welcomed shots…

— Charles Bukowski

“The nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults while…

— Charles Bukowski

“shot in the eye shot in the brain shot in the ass shot like a flower in the dance amazing how death…

— Charles Bukowski

We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.

— Charles Bukowski

The less I needed, the better I felt.

— Charles Bukowski

The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good

— Charles Bukowski

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.

— Charles Bukowski

I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.

— Charles Bukowski

It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?

— Charles Bukowski

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it

— Charles Bukowski

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

— Charles Bukowski

I am a poem. There is no way out.

— Charles Bukowski

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

— Charles Bukowski

In New York you've got to have all the luck.

— Charles Bukowski

Sundays kill more people than bombs.

— Charles Bukowski

Something that never happens anywhere at any time.

— Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

— Charles Bukowski

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

— Charles Bukowski

Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.

— Charles Bukowski

If you let them kill you, they will

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

— Charles Bukowski

I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.

— Charles Bukowski

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

— Charles Bukowski