Soul Quotes by Charles Bukowski

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

— Charles Bukowski

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it

— Charles Bukowski

I have no time for things that have no soul.

— Charles Bukowski

“the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter.”

— Charles Bukowski

You have my soul and I have your money

— Charles Bukowski

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's…

— 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

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when…

— Charles Bukowski

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

— Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

— Charles Bukowski

“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

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have…

— Charles Bukowski

“Her one drink had Cecilia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It…

— 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

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form…

— Charles Bukowski

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and…

— Charles Bukowski

“the soul has no skin; the soul only has insides that want to sing, finally, can't you hear it, brothers? softly, can't…

— 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

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

— Charles Bukowski

A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to…

— 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 sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any…

— Charles Bukowski

unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder,…

— Charles Bukowski

They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have…

— Charles Bukowski

I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired,…

— Charles Bukowski

“Beasts bounding through time. Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of…

— Charles Bukowski