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 BUKOWSKIPeople 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 BUKOWSKIWe are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIBeing alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIAlmost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIShe’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIFind what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
CHARLES BUKOWSKILove need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe trouble with a mask is it never changes.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIThe crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIDogs and angels are not very far apart.
CHARLES BUKOWSKII want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIIf you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.
CHARLES BUKOWSKITime is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI