1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

I didn’t feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can’t say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

And don’t forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Each man’s hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

In New York you’ve got to have all the luck.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I just let it roll. Like a hot turd down a hill.

It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one’s self, like a fingernail.

As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don’t realize it, then you’re finished.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us.