Night Quotes by Charles Bukowski

The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.

— Charles Bukowski

A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.

— Charles Bukowski

I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.

— Charles Bukowski

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

— Charles Bukowski

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and…

— Charles Bukowski

yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head…

— Charles Bukowski

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while…

— 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

I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At…

— Charles Bukowski

why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane…

— Charles Bukowski

...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this…

— Charles Bukowski

I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day…

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A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not…

— Charles Bukowski

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They…

— Charles Bukowski

morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move…

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your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had…

— Charles Bukowski

I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid…

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You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s…

— Charles Bukowski

After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what…

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I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered…

— Charles Bukowski

And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second…

— Charles Bukowski

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not…

— 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

I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine…

— Charles Bukowski

I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed…

— 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

I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice…

— Charles Bukowski