My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKIWhat a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
More Charles Bukowski Quotes
-
-
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
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 -
I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
We must bring our own light to the darkness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI -
I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI