Men Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

— Charles Bukowski

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

— Charles Bukowski

Never trust a man in a jumpsuit

— Charles Bukowski

Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

— Charles Bukowski

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

— Charles Bukowski

“But trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time…

— Charles Bukowski

I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did…

— Charles Bukowski

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

— Charles Bukowski

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his…

— Charles Bukowski

Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.

— Charles Bukowski

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the…

— Charles Bukowski

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

— Charles Bukowski

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump…

— Charles Bukowski

I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to…

— Charles Bukowski

…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for…

— Charles Bukowski

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without…

— Charles Bukowski

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the…

— Charles Bukowski

The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion.…

— Charles Bukowski

I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw…

— Charles Bukowski

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still…

— Charles Bukowski

To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails…

— Charles Bukowski

I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to…

— Charles Bukowski

I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in…

— 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

there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night…

— Charles Bukowski

“we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecue we are unwanted and burning we are…

— Charles Bukowski

“I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the…

— Charles Bukowski

Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a…

— Charles Bukowski

I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason…

— Charles Bukowski

There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a…

— Charles Bukowski

I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been…

— 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

There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he…

— 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

pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman,…

— Charles Bukowski

Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost…

— Charles Bukowski

The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was…

— Charles Bukowski

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am…

— Charles Bukowski