1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

I sat back down and poured a glass of wine. I left my door open. The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, dogs barking, radios . . . We were all in it together. We were all in one big shit pot together. There was no escape. We were all going to be flushed away.

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

SUICIDE. Like a light going on. In the darkness. That there is an out helps you stay in.

İNTİHAR. Aniden yanan bir ışık gibi. Karanlıkta. Çıkış yolu olduğunu bilmek içerde kalmayı kolaylaştırır.

I think a man can keep o drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer... I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth... if I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.

A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price.