Waiting Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.

— Charles Bukowski

lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.

— Charles Bukowski

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

— Charles Bukowski

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

— Charles Bukowski

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

— Charles Bukowski

“I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.”

— Charles Bukowski

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

— Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

— Charles Bukowski

In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To…

— Charles Bukowski

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them…

— Charles Bukowski

That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty…

— Charles Bukowski

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

— Charles Bukowski

“So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait.…

— Charles Bukowski

“but now it’s the waiting on death. it’s not death that’s the problem, it’s the waiting.”

— Charles Bukowski

I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and…

— Charles Bukowski

soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich…

— Charles Bukowski

Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry…

— Charles Bukowski

And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large,…

— Charles Bukowski

That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around…

— Charles Bukowski

in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot…

— 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

There's no light at the end of the tunnel, there isn't even a tunnel. The best thing I can do is get…

— Charles Bukowski

You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get…

— 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

little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for…

— 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

Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them.…

— Charles Bukowski

The Laughing Heart your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are…

— Charles Bukowski

Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times

— Charles Bukowski