All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed… Been
- Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people… Any
- It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it. Better
- People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love. Ability
- Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around,… Arms
- Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out… All
- It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun Beginning
- People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws. Believe
- and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't… Arrive
- Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them. All
- All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/… Affronts
- Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. Funny
- Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink. Funny
- there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and… Alone
- what matters most is how well you walk through the fire Fire
- What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability. Ability
- Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned. Come Easy
- A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do. Beat
- you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old. Ass
- I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. Keeps