You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWe must bring our own light to the darkness.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
-
-
Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
We’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 -
We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
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 -
I lie as truthfully as I can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI