1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

What you see on the freeway is just what there is,a funeral procession of the dead,the greatest horror of our time in motion.I’ll see you there tomorrow!

The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn’t care

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right.""Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

My spoon was bent so that if I wanted to eat I had to pick the spoon up with my right hand. If I picked it up with my left hand, the spoon bent away from my mouth. I wanted to pick the spoon up with my left hand.

Man is the victim of an environment which refuses to understand his soul.

the first place smelled like work, so I took the second

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks. They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything. Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. I tried book after book. Surely, out of all those books, there was one.

The centuries are sprinkled with rare magicwith divine creatureswho help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us