All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability. Ability
- Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned. Come Easy
- A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do. Beat
- you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old. Ass
- I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. Keeps
- if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready. Crazy
- for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I… Average
- there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock Clock
- there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy Always One
- as the spirit wanes the form appears Appears
- I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again. All
- there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's… Asleep
- it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that… Another Person
- I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard. Bar
- if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete. Finished
- I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible---… Alternative
- You have my soul and I have your money Funny
- I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that… Ads
- And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric… Anymore
- Life's as kind as you let it be. Inspirational
- We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized… All
- Great art is horseshit, buy tacos. Art
- When you clean up a city, you destroy it. Cities
- Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's… Accident
- there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting Failure