1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I am a poem. There is no way out.

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.

Never get out of bed before noon.

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on

I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.

Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.