Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
-
-
Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Only the boring get bored.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Without literature, life is hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
The less I needed, the better I felt.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI