Quote

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

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
Taught
Quite
Dies
Lives
Live
Right
Deaths
Things
Chase
Never
Loves

More quotes by Charles Bukowski

Image
I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.
Charles Bukowski
Image
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart
Charles Bukowski
Image
mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
Charles Bukowski
Image
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it
Charles Bukowski
Image
It's just that the grape has me down.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.
Charles Bukowski
Image
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Bukowski
Image
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
Charles Bukowski
Image
you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
Charles Bukowski
Image
since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
Charles Bukowski
Image
I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I'm only interested in poetry.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.
Charles Bukowski
Image
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
Image
purple does something strange to me
Charles Bukowski
Image
I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.
Charles Bukowski