“peace of mind and heart arrives when we accept what is: having been born into this strange life we must accept the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing To do a dull thing with… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather while say flopping… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle - — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was - which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“We are here to drink beer. We are here to end war. We are here to laugh at the odds, and live… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I’ve got several degrees. Call me Mr.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“as you are stuck in your poor body and in your poor life and it’s all slowly dissolving, dissolving into nothing. like… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the streets is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“nerves twitching in the sheets -- to face the sunlight again, that's clearly trouble. I like the city better when the neon lights are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Their Love Is Average, Seeks Average But There Is Genius In Their Hatred” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I climbed the stairway (there was no elevator) and put the key in. The door swung open. Somebody had changed all the furniture around,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
