Quotes from Charles Bukowski

it has been a beautiful fight still is

Sinceramente, horrorizava-me a vida, aquilo que um tipo tinha de fazer só para poder comer, dormir e andar vestido. De maneira que fiquei na cama a beber. Quando bebemos, o mundo continua lá fora, mas por instantes deixa de nos sufocar.

Produce poco placer o ninguno matar a un hombre muerto.

Trying to be good made me sick.

Di media vuelta y me largué hacia la noche. Y en mi vida entró la magia. Y ahí sigue.

CzÄ™sto najlepsze chwile w ?yciu to te, kiedy nic nie robisz, tylko zastanawiasz siÄ™ nad swoim istnieniem, kontemplujesz ró?ne sprawy. I tak kiedy na przykÅ'ad mówisz, ?e wszystko nie ma sensu, to nie mo?e do koÅ"ca nie mie? sensu, bo przecie? jesteÅ› Å›wiadom, ?e nie ma sensu, a twoja Å›wiadomo?? braku sensu nadaje temu jakiÅ› sens. Rozumiecie, o co mi chodzi? Optymistyczny pesymizm.

La vida, tan fea como parece, quizá merezca vivirse tres o cuatro días más.

According to the latest scientific study it takes 325 years for the last brain cell to pop. Now I realize that most of the girls I met in bars and brought home with me were lying about their age.

it was one of those times where nothing was lost because nothing had ever been found

Permiteme que te diga que en cuanto empiezas a admitir que un horror es un horror, al fin se hace MENOS horror.

I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovich, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

One of the failures of Democracy is that the common vote guarantees a common leader who then leads us to a common apathetic predictability!

He was so pitiful that I couldn't tell him to get lost.

Certains ne deviennent jamais fous... Leurs vies doivent être bien ennuyeuses

Entiéndeme. No soy como un mundo ordinario. Tengo mi locura, vivo en otra dimensión y no tengo tiempo para cosas sin alma

Like most others in the world they believe that failure is caused by some factor besides themselves.

Toda mujer es una maquina de follar.

Mark was one of those people who always insisted that our friendship was real no matter how much effort I exerted to stay away from him.

La miró a los ojos y hubo una comunicación entre dos infiernos: el de ella y el de él

Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?

I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made.

I am sad for the dead and I am sad for the living

Never had I felt so good. It was better than masturbating.

there are some people who must always go somewhere. 'let's go to a movie!' 'let's go boating!' 'let's get laid!' 'screw all that stuff,' I always say, 'just let me sit here.