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 BUKOWSKILove 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.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
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She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
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Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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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.
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