“I was in love again. I was in trouble”
Source: Women
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Famous Charles Bukowski Quotes
“I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.”
Source: Women
“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”
Source: Ham On Rye
Source: Ham On Rye
“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch
Source: Come On In!: New Poems
“magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
Source: Ham On Rye
Source: Ham On Rye
“I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.”
“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.”
“My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.”
“I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.”
Source: The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses
Source: Love is a Dog From Hell
“my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.”
“it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.”
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You
“you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.”
“and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.”
“Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?”
Source: Women
“Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.”
Source: Women
“It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.”
Source: Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.”
“the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.”
“I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.”