1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn’t become so obvious yourself.

I’ve learned to feel good when I feel good. it’s better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.

I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here – it’ll be better for all of us.

They were beautiful nothings.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

There’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death.

Most people’s deaths are a sham. There’s nothing left to die.

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread.