Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
-
-
Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
The tigers have found me and I do not care.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI







