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Quotes About Passion

jan was an excellent fuck...she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her.
~ Charles Bukowski
in this room the hours of love still make shadows.
~ Charles Bukowski
What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.
~ Charles Bukowski
I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, crazy. But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.
~ Charles Bukowski
If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.
~ Charles Bukowski
That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
~ Charles Bukowski
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it's your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.
~ Charles Bukowski
sometimes I hate you, she said.
~ Charles Bukowski
To create art means to be crazy alone forever.
~ Charles Bukowski
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
~ Charles Bukowski
She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.
~ Charles Bukowski
Don't do it. Don't love me.
~ Charles Bukowski
I was in love again. I was in trouble
~ Charles Bukowski
one more creature dizzy with love
~ Charles Bukowski
and love was lightning and remembrance
~ Charles Bukowski
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
~ Charles Bukowski
Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
~ Charles Bukowski
she's mad, but she's magic.
~ Charles Bukowski
i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat, above me feet walk upon my brain, monkies fall from the sky clutching photographs of the planets, but i seek only music and the leisure of my pain
~ Charles Bukowski
but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.
~ Charles Bukowski
You gotta find what you like and let it kill you.
~ Charles Bukowski
young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
~ Charles Bukowski
Baby, in a couple of minutes I'm going to rip off your god damned panties and show you some turkey neck you'll remember all the way to the graveside. I have a vast and curved penis, like a sickle, and many a gutted pussy has gasped come upon my callous and roach-smeared rug. First let me finish this drink.
~ Charles Bukowski
To be young is the only religion.
~ Charles Bukowski