World Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

— Charles Bukowski

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

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“It's a f*** you world. Well, keep it going anyhow, what the hell.”

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The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

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

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I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.

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

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the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

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

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When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

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my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.

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

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

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Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch…

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“(the whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned.) I welcomed shots…

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

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

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

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the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry…

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I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and…

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This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they…

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There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They…

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Early evening traffic was beginning to clog the avenue with cars. The sun slanted down behind him. Harry glanced at the drivers…

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“we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecue we are unwanted and burning we are…

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beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their…

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

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there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of…

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Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest,…

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my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

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

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“I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be…

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

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I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work…

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The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed…

— Charles Bukowski