Quote

there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

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
Policemen
Angels
Clouds
Angel
Street
Streets

More quotes by Charles Bukowski

Image
… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
Charles Bukowski
Image
It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
Charles Bukowski
Image
If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
Charles Bukowski
Image
we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.
Charles Bukowski
Image
morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.
Charles Bukowski
Image
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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
Image
You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.
Charles Bukowski
Image
People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them they would mean less and less to me.
Charles Bukowski
Image
It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
Charles Bukowski
Image
hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.
Charles Bukowski
Image
People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
Charles Bukowski
Image
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
Charles Bukowski
Image
all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
Charles Bukowski