Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
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
Burning
Hell
Like
People
More quotes by Charles Bukowski
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
I was in love again. I was in trouble
Charles Bukowski
It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.
Charles Bukowski
We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.
Charles Bukowski
from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
Charles Bukowski
Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.
Charles Bukowski
your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
Charles Bukowski
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
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
Charles Bukowski
Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
Charles Bukowski
As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
Charles Bukowski
I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
Charles Bukowski
They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
Charles Bukowski
there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late
Charles Bukowski
she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness and 2 more: youth and beauty
Charles Bukowski
one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid
Charles Bukowski
Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.
Charles Bukowski
Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
Charles Bukowski
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
Charles Bukowski
I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.
Charles Bukowski
