1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn’t interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can’t stand hounds can’t live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad.

Love breaks my bones and I laugh.

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do – mostly with my time.

The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I’d become a monk. I’d pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn’t always there.