1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.

there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.

The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.