68 result(s) for Charles Bukowski Quotes.
"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul to lose."
"The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn't interest you."
"I'm going to die laughing, get all this death over with."
"We're all going to die, all of us. What a circus!"
"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
"Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life."
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"Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone."
"The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good when you are near or with them."
"We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for."
"Style is the answer to everything."
"How the hell could a person enjoy being awakened at 6:30 AM, 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?"
"There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken."
"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
"Don't try."
"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 never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me... or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude."
"There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe for death."
"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."
"The less I needed, the better I felt."
"There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
"Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted."
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"Life's as kind as you let it be."
"It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left."
"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus."
"I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around."
"Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
"There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first."
"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside, remembering all the times you've felt that way."
"I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one."
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."
"I wanted the impossible, I wanted the sky."
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
"We have wasted history like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar."
"It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse...no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies...not the death of his love, but the shoelace that snaps."
"There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you, she makes ready to destroy."
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"We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
"Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."
"I don't remember her voice, I don't remember what she said, I just remember her laughter."
"I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals."
"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start."
"The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them."
"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of true romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way."
"I didn't come here to explain how I feel, that is only your life, your daughter, and the things you have to carry in your arms."
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
"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, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
"Well, it’s night, Dostoevski shrugged."
"There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe for disease, a sabotage, a depression, or some man or woman wrecking us."
"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 that have no soul."
"The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable."
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
"We are here to laugh at the odds, and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
"Find what you love and let it kill you."
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting."
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
"My ambition is handicapped by laziness."
"How the hell could a person enjoy being awakened at 6:30AM, 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?"
"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 never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me…or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I’ve never been bothered with because I’ve always had this terrible itch for solitude."
"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."
"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way."
"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 someone who understands how you feel and knows how to help."
"I wanted the whole world or nothing."
"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."
"I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around."
"We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
"I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of."
"The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good when you are near or with them."
"The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn’t interest you."
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