1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Nobody can save you but yourself, and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

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.

Boring damned people. All over the Earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The Earth is swarmed with them.

Magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it.

What a weary time those years were, to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.

The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, some place good.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.

Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work.

a life can change in a tenth of a second or sometimes it can take 70 years.