Quote

she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.

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
Women
Wanted
Kind
Like
Wasn
Knew

More quotes by Charles Bukowski

Image
as the spirit wanes the form appears
Charles Bukowski
Image
well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!
Charles Bukowski
Image
the tigers have found me and I do not care.
Charles Bukowski
Image
we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years
Charles Bukowski
Image
Life's as kind as you let it be.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you I am old when it is fashionable to be young I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
Charles Bukowski
Image
My ambition is handicapped by laziness
Charles Bukowski
Image
magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it
Charles Bukowski
Image
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!
Charles Bukowski
Image
Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.
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
I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.
Charles Bukowski
Image
she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness and 2 more: youth and beauty
Charles Bukowski
Image
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
Image
mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
Charles Bukowski
Image
and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.
Charles Bukowski
Image
It's just that the grape has me down.
Charles Bukowski
Image
beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average
Charles Bukowski