Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Things
Live
Magic
Book
Joy
Without
Happened
Matter
Reading
Feel
Read
Feels
Hope
Mind
Words
Weren
Make
Pain
Dull
More quotes by Charles Bukowski
Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.
Charles Bukowski
... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.
Charles Bukowski
I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.
Charles Bukowski
The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
Charles Bukowski
They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.
Charles Bukowski
Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
Charles Bukowski
it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.
Charles Bukowski
unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
Charles Bukowski
I'm only interested in poetry.
Charles Bukowski
Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.
Charles Bukowski
I've never met another man I'd rather be.
Charles Bukowski
Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
Charles Bukowski
I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.
Charles Bukowski
There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.
Charles Bukowski
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
Charles Bukowski
We are here to laugh at the odds.
Charles Bukowski
I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?
Charles Bukowski
Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times
Charles Bukowski
Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.
Charles Bukowski
I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
Charles Bukowski
