Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Charles Bukowski quotes, Charles Bukowski sayings, and Charles Bukowski proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.Charles Bukowski
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.Charles Bukowski
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.Charles Bukowski
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.Charles Bukowski
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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.Charles Bukowski
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.Charles Bukowski
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.Charles Bukowski
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Our disappointment sits between us.Charles Bukowski
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People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.Charles Bukowski
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski
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Agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.Charles Bukowski
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Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.Charles Bukowski
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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.Charles Bukowski
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Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.Charles Bukowski
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Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.Charles Bukowski
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I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.Charles Bukowski
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I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.Charles Bukowski
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Nobody can save you but yourself, and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it.Charles Bukowski
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The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.Charles Bukowski
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.Charles Bukowski
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Boring damned people. All over the Earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The Earth is swarmed with them.Charles Bukowski
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Magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it.Charles Bukowski
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There's no clarity. There was never meant to be clarity.Charles Bukowski
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God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.Charles Bukowski
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.Charles Bukowski
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.Charles Bukowski
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Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.Charles Bukowski
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.Charles Bukowski
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.Charles Bukowski
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a life can change in a tenth of a second or sometimes it can take 70 years.Charles Bukowski