All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone. Alone
- Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad Bad
- beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do… Afraid
- There is light somewhere. Funny
- People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be. Form
- like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive. Alive
- Love breaks my bones and I laugh Bones
- terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind Across
- people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad. Deaths
- Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch. Broken
- I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast… Along
- love iz a big fat turkey and every day iz thanksgiving Big
- she’s mad, but she’s magic. Inspirational
- My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and… All
- I can almost understand why people leap from bridges. Almost Understand
- Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality. Attraction
- I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends… Acquainted
- What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian. Dead
- Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. Burns
- Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely. Careful
- But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there. Funny
- Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry. Breath
- I knew it would be you Funny
- Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there. Pain
- That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing. Drink