1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don’t hear when your back is turned.

Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that’s all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I’ve had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I’m not writing than when I am.

I always started a job with the feeling that I’d soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power.

It’s 4:30 in the morning, it’s always 4:30 in the morning.

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can’t even cry.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

If I’m an ass, I should say so. If I don’t, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.