All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out… Ago
- I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. All
- When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems. Around People
- I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories. Bars
- Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. Amateurs
- Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot. Almost Everyone
- The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good. Been
- Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge. Empowerment
- Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone. Alone
- Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell. Found
- I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I… Ahead
- I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which… American
- I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes. Man
- Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors. Abolished
- The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act. Act
- There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only… Become Like
- The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man… Brave
- There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do. Funny
- The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good All
- We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! All
- The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it Free
- Humanity, you never had it to begin with. Begin
- ...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for. Funny
- Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a… Away Love
- Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without… Ass