Deep and Thought-Provoking Quotes from Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski Quotes
“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
―
Love Is a Dog from Hell
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
―
The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“there is a place in the heart that―
will never be filled
a space
and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times
we will know it
we will know it
more than
ever
there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and
we will wait
and
wait
in that space.”
“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”―
“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”―
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
―
What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.”― Women
“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”― The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“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 real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.”―
“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”― Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”―
“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”― Factotum
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”― Women
“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”― Ham on Rye
“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”―
“Life's as kind as you let it be.”― Hot Water Music
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”―
“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter. Most people make too much of it. On these grounds a good fuck is not to be entirely scorned. But that's the result of a chance meeting too. You're damned right. Drink up. We'll have another.”―
“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”―
“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”―
“I often carry things to read― The Last Night of the Earth Poems
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”
“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“Without literature, life is hell.”―
“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”― Pulp
“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the― Factotum
room was like sunlight to me.”
“Style is the answer to everything.―
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it
To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art”
“And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”― Women
“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“I drive around the streets― Love Is a Dog from Hell
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”
“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”―
“I want so much that is not here and do not know― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
where to go.”
“Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.”
“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”―
“Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.”―
“each man's hell is in a different place:―
mine is just up and behind
my ruined face.”
“It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun”― Factotum
“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”― Tales of Ordinary Madness
“people run from rain but― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.”
“The trouble with a mask is it never changes”―
“nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.”―
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”―
“if you get married they think you're―
finished
and if you are without a woman they think you're
incomplete.”
“I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.”―
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”―
“so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another”― The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.”― Women
“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”― Ham on Rye
“I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.”―
“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.”―
“Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”― Women
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