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God Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.
- There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and…
- If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.
- For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula,…
- People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
- I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things…
- I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body,…
- don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
- we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.
- Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible and nothing can change that; neither new girlfriends, health…
- pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the…
- I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was…
- Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to…
- but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.
- Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love
- God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I…
- where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,
- They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
- Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true;…
- There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi