All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing. Ass
- Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn. Damn
- Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks,… Another Year
- Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and… Apathy
- Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of… Afterwards
- Something that never happens anywhere at any time. Any
- There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out. Bluebird
- And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. Chaos
- The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable Art
- If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. All
- Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser… Allowed
- I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without… Assassinated
- Before my death I hope to obtain my life. Death
- Without literature, life is hell. Hell
- I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to… Amazed
- Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing Answer
- The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable. Distance
- This incompleteness is all we have. All
- No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less. Always Settle
- If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them. Ass
- If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago. Ago
- I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to… Add
- The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you… All
- I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was… Been
- As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed. Forget