100+ Charles Bukowski Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alive Morning Positive
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Break Up Entire Ill Love Recover Serious
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Ability Consideration Feeling Freedom Lack Love Moral People
Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Bad Death Joke Series
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Death Laugh Life Live
In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Cat Life Sleep Wait
Knowledge without follow – through is worse than no knowledge.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Education Inspirational Knowledge Worse
Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Command Faith Love Need
There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Brain Eyes Inside Stare Time
Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alone Beware Constant Crowd
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Deep Die Hard Time Life Live Struggle
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Expectation Girl Look Nightmare Stop
Time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Death Failure Love Useless Wasted Time
There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Destroy Save Woman
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 BUKOWSKI

Anger Constant Life Live Notice People Strange Wasted Time
Life’s as kind as you let it be.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Kind Life One Liner
There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Clock Hands Loneliness Movement World
Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Abolish Color Extend Slave
Are you becoming what you’ve always hated?
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Deep Depression Hate
My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Ambition Handicap Lazy One Liner
What a weary time those years were – to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Ability Desire Hard Time Poverty Time
You can steal my women but don’t play with my whiskey.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alcohol Play Sarcastic Steal Whisky Women
Do you hate people? I don’t hate them, I just feel better when they’re not around.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alone Comfortable Hate People
Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Moments Poetry Worth Writing
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Death Laugh Life Live
I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Be Yourself Delusion Lucky Man Meet Self Love
Nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Inspirational Save War Worth Yourself

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