100+ Charles Bukowski Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Crazy Horrible Humor Live People
I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alcohol Chance Whisky
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Crowd Direction Philosophy Run Wrong
The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Break Up Distance I Miss You Loneliness
The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Bore Identity Mind People World
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.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Defeat Serious Victory
Dogs and angels are not very far apart.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Angel Dog One Liner
She’s mad, but she’s magic. There’s no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Fire Lie Mad Magic Romantic She Women Empowerment
Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Born Bury Genius Idiot
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Drain Finding Inspirational Kill Love One Liner Weigh
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Be Yourself Inspirational Remember
I don’t remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Bed Morning Remember
Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Carry Garbage Handle Love Overload Piss Psychics Right River Rush
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

Alone Circus Die Each Other Eat Love
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Democracy Difference Vote Wasted Time
I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Alcohol Bar Drunk Hope
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Beginning Politics Romantic Save Time World
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

Allow Freedom Mad Notice Poor Rich Society
The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Act Creation Crowd Gather Place Solitude Weak
The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Change Duality Mask One Liner Trouble

Charles Bukowski Quotes

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