1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.

sometimes there's nothing to say about death.

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

When you clean up a city, you destroy it.

I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

What's wrong with assholes, baby?

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.

Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.