All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you. Brain
- I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the… Down
- When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change. Change
- I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love. Awakening
- What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well… Difference
- I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women. Been
- Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are. Adversity
- Finally there is nothing here for death to take away. Death
- It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m. Bars
- Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm? Comparative
- Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is… All
- We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people… Bars
- Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone. Alone
- I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if… Alone
- What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most. Dare
- Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible and nothing can change that; neither new girlfriends, health… Absolutely
- It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the… Book
- If you want to create, you'll create... Create
- 2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and… Beer
- pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the… All
- I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge… Any
- the tigers have found me and I do not care. Care
- Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted Accepted
- I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as… Bottle
- I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty… Dirty