Charles Bukowski Quotes

L'amore è una forma di pregiudizio. Si ama quello di cui si ha bisogno, quello che ci fa star bene, quello che ci fa comodo. Come fai a dire che ami una persona, quando al mondo ci sono migliaia di persone che potresti amare di più, se solo le incontrassi? Il fatto è che non le incontri.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

"Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell."

“If I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.”

I wasn’t a misanthrope and I wasn’t a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

The writing’s easy, it’s the living that is sometimes difficult.

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.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or 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.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

Life's as kind as you let it be.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

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.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

Isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?

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 or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.

"I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now."

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: 'Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.'