You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
CHARLES BUKOWSKISex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
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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.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
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Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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We 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.
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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.
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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that’s why we get along.
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I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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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.
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Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
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Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
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