Charles Bukowski

Quotes

• “To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to ...”
• “My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you d...”
• “there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe...”
• “my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don...”
• “When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. ...”
• “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 terro...”
• “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — rememberin...”
• “there are worse thingsthan being alonebut it often takesdecades to realize thisand most often when you doit's too latean...”
• “People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their live...”
• “I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming fo...”
• “There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get outbut I'm too tough for him,I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let...”
• “Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed w...”
• “Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.some lose both and become acc...”
• “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confiden...”
• “He asked, "What makes a man a writer?""Well,"I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge...”
• “take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning”
• “and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter”
• “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
• “If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
• “those who escape hellhowevernever talk aboutitand nothing muchbothers themafterthat.”
• “Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.”
• “when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns”
• “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
• “nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.”
• “It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
• “Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.”
• “Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
• “unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it”
• “To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”
• “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
• “She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
• “We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
• “Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
• “Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
• “be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you”
• “Find what you love and let it kill you.”