Charles Bukowski
84 quotes
Biography
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
"It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well."
"Do you hate people?”“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
"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."
"what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"
"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 terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
"My ambition is handicapped by laziness"
"You have to die a few times before you can reallylive."
"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art."
"I wanted the whole world or nothing."
"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 down into eventual nothingness.Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.~ Falsely yours"
"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
"there are worse thingsthan being alonebut it often takesdecades to realize thisand most often when you doit's too lateand there's nothing worsethan too late"
"If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose"
"Find what you love and let it kill you."
"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."
"Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.some lose both and become accepted"
"I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of."
"I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often."
"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."
"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."
"those who escape hellhowevernever talk aboutitand nothing muchbothers themafterthat."
"A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover."
"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 anybody see you."