All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. Came
- Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm? Insanity
- It’s when you hide things that you choke on them. Choke
- I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice,… All
- I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become… Cities
- … and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything. Bed
- the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries. Been
- I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies. Body
- You were destroyed by what you befriended. Befriended
- I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do. Exactly
- how can you be true and kind at the same time? how? Inspirational
- I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for… Accept
- they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth? Beautiful
- Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that. Cure
- too often, the only escape is sleep Escape
- It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when… Comfortable
- A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession. Choose
- I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine. All
- We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care. Care
- Well, we lost it, and that’s all there is to that. All
- since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light Always Preferred
- I am a series of small victories and large defeats. Defeat
- we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. Cigarette
- I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day… All
- It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live. All