1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was clear and good and each moment was full of promise.

Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

I was in love again. I was in trouble

I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.