100+ Charles Bukowski Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Broken Heart Expectation Lost Want
Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Dangerous Success
Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Fog Love Reality
The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Crazy Laugh Reason
It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Broken Heart God Life
Before my death I hope to obtain my life
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Death Hope Inspirational Life Obtain One Liner
Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Attitude Baby Believe Genius Self Love
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Happen One Liner Poetry Writing
The less I needed, the better I felt.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Declutter Feeling Minimalism One Liner
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Beginning Inspirational Laughter Life Sun
I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

I Love You Love Man Photograph Touch Woman Writing
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Confidence Doubt Intelligence People Problem Stupidity World
Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Art Buy Greatness Horse One Liner
Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Life Minimalism Painting Profound Secret Simplicity Writing
The tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Lifetime People Sunset Time Tired
Any asshole can chase a skirt, art takes discipline.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Art Discipline Skirt
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Atheist Church Education Learning System Teaching
We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Care Die Time Wonder
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Bloom Bother Disguise Life Rose Sun Wait
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

Beauty Lucky People Ugly
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Bore Earth Horror People Show
Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alcohol Drunk Funny Sarcastic
Without literature, life is hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Education Hell Life Literature One Liner
Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alone Break Up Broken Heart Deep Goodness Loneliness Right
Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom – love – happiness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Fuck Happiness Inspirational Love Wasted Time
Sex is interesting, but it’s not totally important.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Important Interesting Sex
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Inspirational Start Try Work Hard

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