All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else. Everything Else
- i am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms Air
- I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they… Altering
- there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. Days
- Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in… Accept
- We use such big words to move nowhere. Big
- I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken… Always Started
- Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter,… Car
- I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice. Dizzy
- If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of… Always Carry
- Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job. Alive
- How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way. Feel
- I was in love again. I was in trouble Funny
- I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms. Arrive
- I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them. Guess
- Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.'… Boy
- I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they… Anybody
- People empty me. I have to get away to refill. Empty
- If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will… Another Dull
- The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us Beset
- magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it Magic
- as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday. Alone
- the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy. Able
- I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I… Disgust
- Don’t do it. Don’t love me. Don T