Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
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
Thing
Dull
Style
Dangerous
Better
Without
More quotes by Charles Bukowski
I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.
Charles Bukowski
I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
Charles Bukowski
There is nothing as boring as the truth.
Charles Bukowski
People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
Charles Bukowski
The Artist, an ancient sage had once said, is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
Charles Bukowski
mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
Charles Bukowski
as the spirit wanes the form appears
Charles Bukowski
and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive
Charles Bukowski
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski
Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Charles Bukowski
All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.
Charles Bukowski
The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.
Charles Bukowski
Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
Charles Bukowski
Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
Charles Bukowski
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
Charles Bukowski
and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.
Charles Bukowski
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Bukowski
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
Charles Bukowski
I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight
Charles Bukowski
Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.
Charles Bukowski
