Quote

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

Charles Bukowski

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Like
Vast
Wine
Claw
Tears
Claws
Forever
Carries
Many
Tear
Writing
Carrie
Things
Bridge
Men
Bridges

More quotes by Charles Bukowski

Image
I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
Charles Bukowski
Image
The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
Charles Bukowski
Image
They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.
Charles Bukowski
Image
The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable
Charles Bukowski
Image
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
Charles Bukowski
Image
and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.
Charles Bukowski
Image
People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.
Charles Bukowski
Image
If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love
Charles Bukowski
Image
I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.
Charles Bukowski
Image
For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
Charles Bukowski
Image
With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.
Charles Bukowski
Image
The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
Charles Bukowski
Image
don't be ashamed of anything I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Life's as kind as you let it be.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.
Charles Bukowski