All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what? Christ
- Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned. Came
- my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II. Edge
- Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life. Course
- That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion… First Learned
- This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something.… All
- pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more. Absurd
- We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. Crisis
- if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your… Bursting
- American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and… American
- The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do. Coming
- nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never.… All
- Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if… Abbott
- our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory Bones
- Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is. Beautiful
- They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. Afraid
- That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would… Amusing
- It seemed better to delay thinking. Better
- Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped. Created
- when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy… Able
- alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against… All
- And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Eventually
- They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail,… All
- There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. Alcohol
- the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top… Art