1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight.

It was a joy! Words weren’t dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.

Death is nothing, brother, it’s life that’s hard.

There’s music in everything, even defeat.

Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art.

There’s nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there’s nothing else to do, and there’s usually nothing else to do.

The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how – usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.