Inspiring Quotes and Iconic Works by Charles Bukowski

Anything, anything to stop drowning in t... - Insights from Charles Bukowski

The quotes and works of Charles Bukowski delve into themes of life, love, friendship, and success. Their words provide profound insights and inspiration, encouraging readers to reflect and find meaning in their own lives. Whether you're seeking motivation or exploring timeless wisdom, Charles Bukowski's words offer a source of guidance and enlightenment.

Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.
Charles Bukowski
#Existence

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Charles Bukowski
#Loneliness #Solitude

a life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years.
Charles Bukowski
#Aging #Change #Life #Time

All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.
Charles Bukowski
#Bukowski #Love #Slugs #Women

Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.
Charles Bukowski
#Cats

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
Charles Bukowski
#Death

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
Charles Bukowski
#Books #Classics #Reading

I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love.
Charles Bukowski
#Love #Sentimentality #Weep #Weeping

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
Charles Bukowski
#Books #Reading

hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.
Charles Bukowski
#Beauty #Hate #Truth

I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great.
Charles Bukowski
#Humour #Self deprecatory

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
Charles Bukowski
#Hell #Music

from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.
Charles Bukowski
#Depressing #Insightful

love needs too much help, he said.hate takes care of itself.
Charles Bukowski
#Bitter #Effort #Hate #Hatred

I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie.
Charles Bukowski
#Fix #Junkie #Obsession #Passion

Dying should come easy:like a freight train youdon't hear whenyour back isturned.
Charles Bukowski
#Death

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
Charles Bukowski
#Writing

having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.
Charles Bukowski
#Battle #Bukowski #Death #Life

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.
Charles Bukowski
#Fight #Life #Man #Ordinary

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.
Charles Bukowski
#Charles bukowski #Crazy #Life #Novel

The cat is the beautiful devil.
Charles Bukowski
#Cat #Devil

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
Charles Bukowski
#Hope

the courage it took to get out of bed eachmorningto face the same thingsover and overwasenormous.
Charles Bukowski
#Courage

the gods play nofavorites.
Charles Bukowski
#Bukowski #Death #Equality #Favoritism

the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
Charles Bukowski
#Die #Lifetime #People #Sunsets

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.
Charles Bukowski
#Drinking #Editing #Giving up #Moving on

there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.
Charles Bukowski
#Charles bukowski #Layover #Life #Living

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
Charles Bukowski
#Writing

And then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw.
Charles Bukowski
#Poetry

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.
Charles Bukowski
#Grief #Sadness

Quotes and Iconic Works by Charles Bukowski

Anything, anything to stop drowning in t... - Insights from Charles Bukowski