1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.