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Charles Bukowski Quotes

Total quotes: 98
“and love is a word used
too much and
much
too soon.”
— Charles Bukowski, The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
Tagged: Love, Overuse, Overrated, Word
“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
— Charles Bukowski, Pulp
Tagged: Unfortunate, Misery
“I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means - the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.”
— Charles Bukowski, Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970
Tagged: everyday
“Lack of love. Sleep, then nightmare. Paper everywhere. Trivial bits of paper. Nothing ever done. Sure, sure, sure. Today I will walk in the sun. I will simply walk in the sun.”
— Charles Bukowski, Screams from the Balcony
Tagged: Living, Experience, Feelings, Sufferings, Life
“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”
— Charles Bukowski, via Amazon
Tagged: Soul, purpose, Goals
“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.”
— Charles Bukowski, Ham On Rye
Tagged: Isolation
“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.”
— Charles Bukowski, The Last Night Of The Earth Poems
Tagged: Bibliophile, Introvert, shyness, book, Reading
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other
that I have gotten from there to here. ”
— Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers At Last
Tagged: victory, Defeat, Words of Encouragement For Hard Times, Traveling Through Life
“I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.”
— Charles Bukowski, Notes Of A Dirty Old Man
Tagged: Nonchalance, Snob, Uninterested, Relationship
“Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women: A Novel
Tagged: Love, romance, Numbers, Pickup Lines
“I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Love, Being In Love, Relationships, Perspective, Reality
“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
Tagged: Love, Success, Self-Concept, Human Nature
“…and we drink our
coffee and pretend
not to look at
each other.”
— Charles Bukowski, Luck
Tagged: Drink, Coffee, pretending
“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”
— Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
Tagged: Emptiness, Sadness, Space, heart, Broken Heart
“It is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and presence matches yours at that moment.”
— Charles Bukowski
Tagged: Relationship, Timing
“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.”
— Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
Tagged: Empty, heart, Love, Filling spaces, Emptiness, Numb
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.”
— Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Tagged: Death, Life, The Human Condition, Living, Loving Each Other
“the courage it took to get out of bed each 
morning 
to face the same things 
over and over 
was 
enormous.”
— Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
Tagged: Life, Apathy, Depression, The Daily Grind
“I take much pleasure in being alone
but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.”
— Charles Bukowski, Open All Night
“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.”
— Charles Bukowski, finish, by Charles Bukowskifinish
Tagged: Poetry, Metaphor
“I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.”
— Charles Bukowski, The Last night on Earth Poems
Tagged: Feelings, sympathy
“I want to be with you, it is as simple, and as complicated as that.”
— Charles Bukowski, via Amazon
Tagged: Love, Being With Someone
“...love breaks my

bones and I

laugh.”
— Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems
Tagged: Love, romance, Heartbreaks, Breakups, poem, Poetry
“The heart roars like a lion at what they’ve done to us.”
— Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers At Last
Tagged: Poetic, Love, romance
“She's a mess of gorgeous chaos and you can see it in her eyes.”
— Charles Bukowski, via Amazon
Tagged: Women, beauty
“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.”
— Charles Bukowski, Tales Of Ordinary Madness
Tagged: Sadness
“I remember when
your eyes
said love
loudly”
— Charles Bukowski, War All The Time(The Miracle is the Shortest Time)
Tagged: Memories, Love, Reminiscing, Missing Someone, Relationship, Past Love
“What I needed seemed to be absent everywhere.”
— Charles Bukowski, Introduction to "Ask the Dust" by John Fante
Tagged: Loneliness, Sad People
“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
— Charles Bukowski, Betting on the Muse
Tagged: Less, Better Changes
“It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.”
— Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
Tagged: Courage, Amusement, Brave
“I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
— Charles Bukowski, Post Office
Tagged: Extremes, ENFP, ENTP, Having It All, Desire, Lust, Lust For Life, Living Fully, Wanting Someone You Can't Have
“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”
— Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through The Fire
Tagged: Problems, Challenges, Handling Problems
“I love you but I don’t know what to do.”
— Charles Bukowski, Bukowski on Twitter
Tagged: Love, Clueless, Fear
“Don’t do it. Don’t love me.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Fall Out Of Love, Temptation
“What was wrong was never understood and what was right never lasted.”
— Charles Bukowski, The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
Tagged: Understanding, Misunderstood, Wrong, Right
“I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Nothingness, Alone, Peaceful
“She’s mad, but she’s magic.”
— Charles Bukowski, An Almost Made Up Poem, from "Love Is A Mad Dog From Hell"
Tagged: Magic, Love, Woman
“We really had nothing to do but drink wine and make love.”
— Charles Bukowski, Factotum
Tagged: Love, Intimacy, Happiness, Cuddles, Making Love, Wine, Drunk
“Time was motionless while existence was a throbbing unbearable thing.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Time, Life, Unhappy
“regret is mostly caused by not having 
done anything.”
— Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
Tagged: Regret, Life, Living Fully, Making Mistakes
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