1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

Only the boring get bored

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.

If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.