Time Quotes by Charles Bukowski

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

— Charles Bukowski

There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.

— Charles Bukowski

I have no time for things that have no soul.

— Charles Bukowski

Something that never happens anywhere at any time.

— Charles Bukowski

this time has finished me.

— Charles Bukowski

A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.

— Charles Bukowski

“sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.”

— Charles Bukowski

“there’s all that time to eat drink and wait on death like everybody else.”

— Charles Bukowski

“This future running toward us paralyzes the wallet and the brain.”

— Charles Bukowski

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

— Charles Bukowski

some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.

— Charles Bukowski

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

— Charles Bukowski

Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?

— Charles Bukowski

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what…

— 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

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house…

— 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

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but…

— Charles Bukowski

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you…

— Charles Bukowski

“The good times were over. Nobody gave a shit and nobody had any money and if they had any, they kept it.”

— Charles Bukowski

“What you see on the freeway is just what there is, a funeral procession of the dead, the greatest horror of our…

— Charles Bukowski

This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for…

— Charles Bukowski

Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs…

— Charles Bukowski

“It was the first time i had been alone for five days. I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it…

— Charles Bukowski

“But they were all tricks.They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything.Or if they did…

— 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

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my…

— Charles Bukowski

“There are still things to be handle; there will always be things to be handled. Nobody ever gets caught up and finished…

— Charles Bukowski

“Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over for dinner?’…

— 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

“The time came to put Iris Duarte back on the plane. It was a morning flight which made it difficult. I was…

— Charles Bukowski

“we were in her big oak bed facing south so much of the rest of the time that I memorized each wrinkle…

— Charles Bukowski

“Look, you're small-town. I've had over 50 jobs, maybe a hundred. I've never stayed anywhere long. What I am trying to say…

— 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

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been…

— 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

“I drank for some time, three or four days. I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting…

— Charles Bukowski

“is that death stalking me now? no, it’s only my cat, this time.”

— Charles Bukowski

I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.

— Charles Bukowski

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

— Charles Bukowski