Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles Bukowski
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
Actor
Author
Autobiographer
Columnist
Diarist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Henry Charles Bukowski
Buk
charles bukowski
Sentence
Jail
Sentences
Friendship
Friends
Interesting
More quotes by Charles Bukowski
I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.
Charles Bukowski
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
Charles Bukowski
and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?
Charles Bukowski
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
Charles Bukowski
...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.
Charles Bukowski
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late
Charles Bukowski
I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
Charles Bukowski
What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.
Charles Bukowski
What were you going to do tonight? I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff. Who's that? A dead Russian.
Charles Bukowski
If you want to create, you'll create.
Charles Bukowski
I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
Charles Bukowski
Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
Charles Bukowski
I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
Charles Bukowski
I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.
Charles Bukowski
I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
Charles Bukowski
The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.
Charles Bukowski
i dunno, i said, but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
Charles Bukowski
In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
Charles Bukowski
You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.
Charles Bukowski
That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.
Charles Bukowski
