1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

To create art means to be crazy alone forever.

My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of 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. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours

Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.

There is nothing as boring as the truth.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.