1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

YOU DULL ME!

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun.

Banion wondered which was worse – being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

That’s how it is with books, isn’t it: They’re not in a hurry. They’ll wait for you till you’re ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don’t want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

As a recluse I couldn’t bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It 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.

We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

If I bet on humanity, I’d never cash a ticket.