1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.

She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.

It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love.

The Laughing Heartyour life is your lifedon’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.be on the watch.there are ways out.there is a light somewhere.it may not be much light butit beats the darkness.be on the watch.the gods will offer you chances.know them.take them.you can’t beat death butyou can beat death in life, sometimes.and the more often you learn to do it,the more light there will be.your life is your life.know it while you have it.you are marvelousthe gods wait to delightin you.

I wish to weepbut sorrow isstupid.I wish to believebut belief is agraveyard.

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw