Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.
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
Totter
Perched
Joan
Arcs
Hitler
Ends
Teeter
More quotes by Charles Bukowski
I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.
Charles Bukowski
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Charles Bukowski
the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
Charles Bukowski
They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.
Charles Bukowski
she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
Charles Bukowski
the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they were so beautiful. they dont make it, the beautiful die young and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.
Charles Bukowski
So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
Charles Bukowski
It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.
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
If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
Charles Bukowski
I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.
Charles Bukowski
don't be ashamed of anything I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
Charles Bukowski
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
Charles Bukowski
I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
Charles Bukowski
It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
Charles Bukowski
Never trust a man in a jumpsuit
Charles Bukowski
I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?
Charles Bukowski
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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
