1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

i never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down...

If you let them kill you, they will