Life Quotes by Charles Bukowski

“that's what kills a man: lack of change.”

— Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

— Charles Bukowski

“I love you but don't know what to do.”

— Charles Bukowski

Fiction is an improvement on life

— Charles Bukowski

“DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG”

— Charles Bukowski

“I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Your life is your life”

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Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

— Charles Bukowski

“I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...”

— Charles Bukowski

“a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.”

— Charles Bukowski

“There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.”

— Charles Bukowski

“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Life wore a man out, wore a man thin. Tomorrow would be a better day.”

— Charles Bukowski

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

— Charles Bukowski

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

— Charles Bukowski

Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard

— Charles Bukowski

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

— Charles Bukowski

“Everything is so sweetly awful, so continuously sweetly awful: the art of consummation: life eating life.”

— 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

“Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I’ve got several degrees. Call me Mr.”

— Charles Bukowski

whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just…

— Charles Bukowski

It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile…

— Charles Bukowski

In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To…

— Charles Bukowski

“I paid, got up, walked to the door, opened it. I heard the man say, "that guy's nuts." out on the street…

— Charles Bukowski

“Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives and deaths to…

— Charles Bukowski

“I was getting depressed. My life wasn't going anywhere. I needed something, the flashing of lights, glamour, some damn thing. And here…

— 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

“as long as there are human beings about there is never going to be any peace for any individual upon this earth…

— Charles Bukowski

“peace of mind and heart arrives when we accept what is: having been born into this strange life we must accept the…

— Charles Bukowski

“Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike.…

— Charles Bukowski

“I can hear cars on the freeway, it’s like a distant sea sludged with people while over my other shoulder, far over…

— Charles Bukowski

If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the…

— Charles Bukowski

“Writing was never work for me. It had been the same for as long as I could remember: turn on the radio…

— Charles Bukowski

I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and…

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

“I have been hanging here headless for so long that the body has forgotten why or where or when it happened and…

— Charles Bukowski

“And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now…

— Charles Bukowski

“invent yourself and then reinvent yourself, don't swim in the same slough. invent yourself and then reinvent yourself and stay out of…

— Charles Bukowski

“there is always that space there just before they get to us that space that fine relaxer the breather while say flopping…

— Charles Bukowski

That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my…

— Charles Bukowski