Quotes from Charles Bukowski

Life wore a man out, wore a man thin. Tomorrow would be a better day.

Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.

Love is alright for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss!!

I am a joke told again.

most give way leaving empty spaces where people should be.

the whole world is at the throat of the world, everybody feels angry, short-changed, cheated, everybody is despondent, disillusioned.) I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards of happiness.

but we joke and laugh otherwise we would start screaming.

There was something about funerals. It made you see things better.

I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was clear and good and each moment was full of promise.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

humanity you sick motherfucker.

What will you do? Oh, hell, I'll write a novel about writing the screenplay and making the movie. What are you going to call it? Hollywood. Hollywood? Yes...

if I had met you I would probably have been unfair to you or you to me. it was best like this.

Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I've got several degrees. Call me Mr.

and now as we ready to self-destruct there is very little left to kill which makes the tragedy less and more much much more.

I wait on my fix: I am a poetry junkie.

If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. Most people couldn't wait on the luck, though, so they quit.

Have you ever been in love?" "Love is for real people." "You sound real." "I dislike real people." "You dislike them?" "I hate them.

It's never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

What were doctors, lawyers, scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us

and beware those who only take instructions from their God for they have failed completely to live their own lives.

My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.

Maybe she hadn't saved the world but she had made a major improvement.