All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how… Dull
- We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti Alcoholic
- If you let them kill you, they will Funny
- It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you? Don T
- I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love. All
- I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I… All
- I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world. Ago
- Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things… Another Dimension
- Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait. Better
- The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which… Aid
- ... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it… Clock
- Knowledge is knowing as little as possible. Inspirational
- The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out,… Busted
- Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience. Experience
- I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. Fine
- If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. Bursting
- I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are. Always Enough
- People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them… Desperate
- my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world. All
- Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline. Any
- Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around. Better
- there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at… Absurdity
- the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever Bridge
- Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation. All
- I wanted the whole world or nothing. Inspirational