1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

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.

You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

They were beautiful nothings

the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart

It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.

They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where it comes from. It comes from pain, damnation and impossibility. The blow to the soul of the gut. It comes from getting burned and seared and slugged. It comes from...new and awful places and the same old places.