1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the sidewalk. The dog walked up to the bit of sandwich, put his nose to it, sniffed, then turned and walked off. This time he didn't look back. He accelerated down the street. No wonder I had been depressed all my life. I wasn't getting proper nourishment.

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.

An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.