Quote

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it

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
Soul
Rare
Free

More quotes by Charles Bukowski

Image
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
Image
i dunno, i said, but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
Charles Bukowski
Image
I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.
Charles Bukowski
Image
unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
Charles Bukowski
Image
The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable
Charles Bukowski
Image
When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
Charles Bukowski
Image
It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.
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
When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Charles Bukowski
Image
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.
Charles Bukowski
Image
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski
Image
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
Image
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles Bukowski
Image
American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
Charles Bukowski
Image
in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
Charles Bukowski