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Quotes About Isolation

but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own
~ Charles Bukowski
now they are celebrating my demise in taverns I no longer frequent.
~ Charles Bukowski
I know that I have deserted you, the icecubes pile like fool's gold in the pitcher and now they are playing Alex Scriabin which is a little better but not much for me.
~ Charles Bukowski
There are certainly any number of lonely people without much to do with their nights.
~ Charles Bukowski
I just sit here and look at my hands. It is one of my better evenings. Yesterday I was very depressed.
~ Charles Bukowski
Nobody bother us, we bother nobody.
~ Charles Bukowski
hell is built piece by piece brick by brick around you.
~ Charles Bukowski
As I began to drink alone I found my company more than satisfactory.
~ Charles Bukowski
I had read that more people committed suicide on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day than at any other time. The holiday had little or nothing to do with the Birth of Christ, apparently.
~ Charles Bukowski
loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.
~ Charles Bukowski
in fact," I told her, "I am a genius but nobody knows it but me.
~ Charles Bukowski
The Baron went on doing magic things. Half the notebook was filled with Baron Von Himmlen. It made me feel good to write about the Baron. A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating living your life without a man like him around.
~ Charles Bukowski
It's a lonely time, she sings, and you're not mine and it makes me feel so bad, this thing of being me...
~ Charles Bukowski
To think, somebody had suicided for that.
~ Charles Bukowski
I am watching a girl dressed in a light green sweater, blue shorts, long black stockings; there is a necklace of some sort but her breasts are small, poor thing, and she watches her nails as her dirty white dog sniffs the grass in erratic circles; a pigeon is there too, circling, half dead with a tick of a brain and I am upstairs in my underwear, 3 day beard, pouring a beer and waiting for something literary or symphonic to happen;
~ Charles Bukowski
you realize when you're plucked out of the mainstream that it doesn't need you or anybody else. the birds don't notice you're gone, the flowers don't care, the people out there don't notice, but the IRS, the phone co., the gas and electric co., the DMV, etc., they keep in touch. being very sick and being dead are very much the same in society's eye.
~ Charles Bukowski
Suicide fails as you get older: There's less and less to kill
~ Charles Bukowski
two hollow emptinesses looking into each other
~ Charles Bukowski
Amo i solitari, i diversi, quelli che non incontri mai. Quelli persi, andati, spiritati, fottuti. Quelli con l'anima in fiamme.
~ Charles Bukowski
İnsanlar?n yan?nda mutlu deÄŸilim, yeterince içersem kayboluyorlar.
~ Charles Bukowski
Não posso dizer que odeie o mundo dos homens e das mulheres, mas eu sentia um certo nojo que me separava dos artesãos e dos comerciantes, dos mentirosos e dos amantes, e agora, décadas mais tarde, sinto esse mesmo nojo. É claro, essa é apenas a história de um homem ou a visão de um homem da realidade. Se você continuar lendo, talvez a próxima história seja mais alegre. Espero que sim.
~ Charles Bukowski
İşler iyice boka sard???nda bir adama kendi ba??na kalabileceÄŸi bir oda, içki ve seyredecek dört duvar verirsen ölüm d???nda her ÅŸeyin üstesinden gelebilir diye düÅŸünüyorum.
~ Charles Bukowski
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens. Ferris
~ Charles Bukowski
Jei tu esi vienintelis, matantis vaizdinius, tave vadina šventuoju arba pamišeliu.
~ Charles Bukowski