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Quotes About Perspective

Hell was what you made it.
~ Charles Bukowski
There was something about funerals. It made you see things better. A funeral a day and I'd be rich.
~ Charles Bukowski
I walk over and fill her drink: "you got class, doll, you're not like the others…" she likes that and I like it too because to make a thing true all you've got to do is believe.
~ Charles Bukowski
We know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.
~ Charles Bukowski
Një intelektual thotë një gjë të thjeshtë në një mënyrë të vështirë. Një artist thotë një gjë të vështirë në një mënyrë të thjeshtë.
~ Charles Bukowski
I am bitter sometimes but the taste has often been sweet.
~ Charles Bukowski
Shakespeare never did this.
~ Charles Bukowski
But it's only when a man gets to the point of a gun in his mouth that he can see the whole world inside of his head. Anything else is conjecture, conjecture and bullshit and pamphlets.
~ Charles Bukowski
When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.
~ Charles Bukowski
SUICIDE. Like a light going on. In the darkness. That there is an out helps you stay in.
~ Charles Bukowski
Style is the answer to everything.
~ Charles Bukowski
Me alegraba de no estar enamorado, de no ser feliz con el mundo. Me gustaba estar en desacuerdo con todo. La gente enamorada a menudo se ponía cortante, peligrosa. Perdían su sentido de la perspectiva. Perdían su sentido del humor. Se ponían nerviosos, psicóticos, aburridos. Incluso se convertían en asesinos.
~ Charles Bukowski
was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
~ Charles Bukowski
we were never children like your children. We do not understand love songs like your inamorata.
~ Charles Bukowski
Hank, I can't stand it! You can't stand what, baby? The situation. What situation, babe? Me working and you laying around. All the neighbors think I am supporting you. Hell, I worked and you laid around. That's different. You're a man, I'm a woman. Oh, I didn't know that. I thought you bitches were always screaming for equal rights?
~ Charles Bukowski
Only the poor knew the meaning of life; the rich and the safe had to guess.
~ Charles Bukowski
Manny, what are you doing working in auto parts?" "Resting.
~ Charles Bukowski
I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.
~ Charles Bukowski
Kimsenin ?st?rab? olmas? gerekenden fazla de?ildir.
~ Charles Bukowski
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare. I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.
~ Charles Bukowski
Ma l'aspetto positivo dell'essere un ubriacone è che non eri mai stitico. A volte pensavo al fegato, ma lui non parlava mai, non diceva mai: Smettila tu stai ammazzando me io ammazzerò te Se avessimo il fegato parlante non avremmo bisogno degli Alcolisti Anonimi.
~ Charles Bukowski
That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience
~ Charles Bukowski
I view his furry storage tanks – what can a man think about while looking at a cat's nuts? Certainly not the sunken navies of great sea battles.
~ Charles Bukowski
I had come to the racetrack after the other two funerals and had won. There was something about funerals. It made you see things better. A funeral a day and I'd be rich.
~ Charles Bukowski