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Quotes About Youth

then I was a young man a thousand years old, and now I am an old man waiting to be born.
~ Charles Bukowski
a man can be old and a fool many are a man can be young and wise few are
~ Charles Bukowski
she was consumed by 2 simple things: despair, loneliness; and oh 2 more: youth and beauty
~ Charles Bukowski
you smirk, look at her (what's this?), you're cut somewhere, love it, the dripping of red onto your dirty torn undershirt, the whiskey roaring through your invincibility: you're young, you're big, and the world stinks from centuries of Humanity while you're on course and there's something left to drink—
~ Charles Bukowski
The kids sit about sipping at their coffees and waiting for it to happen. It isn't going to happen.
~ Charles Bukowski
America had been taught that beauty only resided in youth, especially in the female.
~ Charles Bukowski
The next thing I knew, I had a young girl from Texas on my lap. I won't go into details of how I met her. Anyway, there it was. She was 23. I was 36.
~ Charles Bukowski
Youth, you son of a bitch, where did you go?
~ Charles Bukowski
The bums were better dressed, younger, but just as listless. They sat around on the window ledges, hunched forward, getting warm in the sun and drinking the free coffee that W.F.I. offered. There was no cream and sugar, but it was free.
~ Charles Bukowski
we each at times should remember the most elevated and lucky moment of our lives. for me it was being a very young man and sleeping penniless and friendless upon a park bench in a strange city which doesn't say much for all those many decades which followed.
~ Charles Bukowski
so you went with the famous and wrote about the famous, and, of course, what you found out is that the famous are worried about their fame—not the beautiful young girl in bed with them
~ Charles Bukowski
meanwhile I look at young girls stems flowers of chance. there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet though of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.
~ Charles Bukowski
pitäkää te pojat neitsyenne antakaa minulle kuumia korkeakorkoisia vanhoja naisia joiden perseet unohtivat vanheta
~ Charles Bukowski
Once she had been a little girl, someday she would be dead, but now she was showing me her upper legs.
~ Charles Bukowski
Mi ricordo che un giorno ricevetti una lettera furibonda da un tale il quale sosteneva che non avevo diritto di dire che Shakespeare non mi piace. Troppi giovani mi avrebbero creduto senza nemmeno darsi la pena di leggere Shakespeare. Non avevo diritto di affermare una cosa simile. E così via. Non gli ho mai risposto. Lo faccio adesso. Fottiti amico. E non mi piace nemmeno Tolstoj.
~ Charles Bukowski
ihminen voi olla vanha ja tyhmä ? monet ovat, ihminen voi olla nuori ja viisas ? harvat ovat.
~ Charles Bukowski
las palabras bonitas como las mujeres bonitas se arrugan y mueren.
~ Charles Bukowski
Saçmal?k, yaÅŸamak, beklemek, aramak.DüÅŸünmekten beynim aÄŸr?yordu. Bir kere a??k olmuÅŸtum, ilk gençlik rüyalar?m? görmeye baÅŸlad???m y?llarda. Irene bizim yan?m?zdaki evde yaÅŸard?.Onun yan?nda kalbim zonklard?. Sonra en yak?n arkada??mla k?rlara gittiler.O gün vazgeçtim sevmekten.
~ Charles Bukowski
The '67 model was the last good Volks—and the young men knew it. "Hepburn, they stole our fucking car." "Oh Hank, surely not!" "It's gone. It was sitting there." I pointed. "Now it's gone." "Hank, what will we do?" "We'll take a taxi. I really feel bad." "Why do people do that?" "They have to. It's their way out." We
~ Charles Bukowski
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.
~ Charles Bukowski
Biliyor musun doktor, insan?n akl? ba??na çok tuhaf zamanlarda geliyor - ya gençlik tükendikten sonra, ya f?rt?na dindikten sonra, ya da k?zlar eve gittikten sonra.
~ Charles Bukowski
D??ar? ç?karken kolum Bernadette'in belindeydi. Liseli bir k?z? and?r?yordu hâlâ. -uzun saçlar, ipek, hassas ve seksi dudaklar. İçinde bulunduÄŸu cehennemi gözlerine bakt???nda fark edebiliyordun ancak.
~ Charles Bukowski
In a letter to Thomas Jefferson, the aging John Adams recalled the Massachusetts of his youth as a multiracial society. "Aaron Pomham the Priest and Moses Pomham the Kind of the Punkapaug and Neponsit Tribes were frequent Visitors at my Father's House Ã¢â'¬Â¦," he wrote nostalgically.
~ Charles C. Mann
the boy saw faces disinigrate before his eyes, faces that fell to pieces, then disappeared, leaving a hole.
~ Charles D'Ambrosio