People Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Sundays kill more people than bombs.

— Charles Bukowski

People empty me. I have to get away to refill.

— Charles Bukowski

“she wasn't very interesting but few people are.”

— Charles Bukowski

“People lack originality.”

— Charles Bukowski

People don't do me much good.

— Charles Bukowski

People do too much. They say too much.

— Charles Bukowski

people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

— Charles Bukowski

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

— Charles Bukowski

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

— Charles Bukowski

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

— Charles Bukowski

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

— Charles Bukowski

I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.

— Charles Bukowski

I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.

— Charles Bukowski

I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.

— Charles Bukowski

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you…

— Charles Bukowski

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible…

— Charles Bukowski

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

— Charles Bukowski

Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re…

— Charles Bukowski

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus…

— Charles Bukowski

Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers,…

— Charles Bukowski

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

— Charles Bukowski

... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so…

— Charles Bukowski

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is…

— Charles Bukowski

we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those…

— 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

I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy…

— Charles Bukowski

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People…

— Charles Bukowski

I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all…

— Charles Bukowski

he asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or…

— Charles Bukowski

great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that…

— Charles Bukowski

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

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

— Charles Bukowski

I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street…

— Charles Bukowski

We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into…

— Charles Bukowski

Are people crazy? People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die. They waited in line to buy…

— Charles Bukowski

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible…

— Charles Bukowski

There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything.…

— Charles Bukowski

People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

— Charles Bukowski

My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

— Charles Bukowski

Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

— Charles Bukowski