Quotes from Charles Bukowski

if only we were crazy enough to be willing to ignore our mechanical and static perceptions we'd know that a half-filled coffee cup holds more secrets than, say, the Grand Canyon.

after you've pulled off the tablecloth with the full plates of food and broken the windows and rung the bells of idiots and have spoken true and terrible words and have chased the mob through the doorway- then comes the great and peaceful moment: sitting alone and pouring that quiet drink. the world is better without them. only the plants and the animals are true comrades. I drink to them and with them. they wait as I fill their glasses.

tonight this room is smoky and I am alone listening to the silence. I am tired of waiting on life, it was so slow to arrive and so quick to leave. the streets and the cities are empty, love is on the damned cross and death laughs in the back room. at the edge, the edge, the edge.

Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn't let me.

Non ero ancora morto, solo in un stato di rapido decadimento.

born into this into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die

Who was Col. Sussex? Just some guy who had to shit like the rest of us.

People became so used to seeing shit on film that they no longer realized it was shit.

Once you have been poor a long time you gain a certain respect for money.

Algunas personas nunca enloquecen. Tendrán unas vidas realmente horribles.

Un bel quartiere. Definizione di un bel quartiere: un posto in cui non puoi permetterti di abitare.

Maldita sea, parecía imposible que perdiéramos, pero perdimos.

Maledetti noiosi. Su tutta la Terra. Che diffondono altri maledetti noiosi. Che spettacolo dell'orrore. La Terra ne brulicava.

Sometimes a phone made me think of an elephant turd. You know, all the shit you hear. A phone is a phone but what comes through it is another matter.

The Gays have not only come out of the closet, but they have managed somehow to put us into it.

I am humanely destroyed, I am the horseplayer who became the racetrack.

but the man with the whip was a part of the whole no matter how seemingly useless and stupid and once great thoughts often with time become useless and stupid. but Schopenhauer's rage was so beautiful so well placed that I laughed out loud then put him down next to Nietzsche who was also all too human.

and there was a fish pond a large one full of the fattest goldfish you ever saw and they were tame. they came to the surface of the water and took pieces of bread from our hands.

hell, I worked HARD all my life!" (they think this is a virtue, but it only proves a man is a damn fool.)

Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops

You only live once, right? Well, except for Lazarus. Poor sucker, he had to die twice.

Beynime bir soluk hava çekebilmek için savaÅŸmaktan b?kt?m. Y?llarca insanlardan kaçmam?n nedeni bu, ve onlarla görüÅŸmeye baÅŸlad???mdan beri inime dönme zaman?n?n geldiÄŸini hissediyorum.

I decided to put on my new suit and go out and find a woman, a beautiful one, of course, to support a man of my still-hidden talents.

Nick, que esa cosa tan grande que está ahi empinada mientras hablas conmigo? -Ah, esto! Es mi barriga!