1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you

That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing.

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

Let' em learn or let' em die

morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.