Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
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
Love
Number
Numbers
Special
Two
Look
Looks
Even
Way
Unique
More quotes by Charles Bukowski
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
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Charles Bukowski
Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.
Charles Bukowski
It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.
Charles Bukowski
Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were different, their breasts were different, but no man could drink them all, there were too many of them, crossing their legs, driving men mad. What a feast!
Charles Bukowski
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
Charles Bukowski
we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.
Charles Bukowski
love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
Charles Bukowski
Never trust a man in a jumpsuit
Charles Bukowski
you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
Charles Bukowski
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
Charles Bukowski
He asked, what makes a man a writer? well, I said, it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. are you desperate? I don't know.
Charles Bukowski
I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
Charles Bukowski
I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.
Charles Bukowski
Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.
Charles Bukowski
You are thirty minutes late. Yes. Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral? No. Why not, pray tell? Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.
Charles Bukowski
They were beautiful nothings
Charles Bukowski
Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.
Charles Bukowski
Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.
Charles Bukowski
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
