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Charles Bukowski quotes (showing 1-50 of 526)
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski
Quill
tags: humor
4,964
like
“Do you hate people?
I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
2,053
like
“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered.
But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big
answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and
discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a
dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the
church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We
are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our
lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: atheism , religion
1,635
like
“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a
drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if
something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing
happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
tags: alcohol
1,164
like
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
1,097
like
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your
mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean
freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It
could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are
a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And,
you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be
better than anything else you can imagine. 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, Factotum
tags: fire , flame , isolation , laughter , loss , sacrifice
1,073
like
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should
make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened
by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski
1,059
like
“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
tags: humour
998
like
“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
880
like
“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
847
like
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a
hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski
776
like
“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski
771
like
“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've
been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt
that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering
me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words,
loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've
always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at
a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel
loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone."
I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and
give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't
help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you
going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out
there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let
them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to
rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in
factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been
lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's
drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: loneliness
749
like
“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a
soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski
709
like
“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski
696
like
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring
damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
― Charles Bukowski
622
like
“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to,
keeps little photographs of.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
tags: love
611
like
“there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.
people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.
people just are not good to each other
one on one.
the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.
we are afraid.
our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.
it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.
or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone
untouched
unspoken to
watering a plant.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
570
like
“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
― Charles Bukowski
554
like
“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: humor
495
like
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office
435
like
“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism
of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of
your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the
feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to
return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing
yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or
fifteen thousand lives now.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: bukowski , drinking
432
like
“Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.”
― Charles Bukowski
430
like
“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.”
― Charles Bukowski
427
like
“I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: humour
412
like
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never
entirely recover.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
404
like
“you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgot to get old. ”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
tags: women
395
like
“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there
was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group
encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel,
withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting,
composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling,
drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha,
Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New
York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find
things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
tags: humans , philosophy , society
394
like
“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
― Charles Bukowski
392
like
“the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically
because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
388
like
“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a
place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one
usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at
6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit,
piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where
essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to
be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
383
like
“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the
world.”
― Charles Bukowski
382
like
“We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”
― Charles Bukowski
381
like
“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the
slow movement of the hands of a clock”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
tags: loneliness
369
like
“there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman
saves you she makes ready to destroy”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
tags: women
364
like
“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad
sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it.
I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it
pretty often, too often.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
358
like
“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
― Charles Bukowski
358
like
“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly
they lacked the ability to feel or love.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
353
like
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with
the color of forgotten love.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
352
like
“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain
arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to
anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an
idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands
how you feel, and knows how to help.”
― Charles Bukowski
321
like
“This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence.
Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods,
you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very
important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few.
That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: humor-philosophy
310
like
“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: poetry
310
like
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is
grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
304
like
“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have
bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: bukowski
296
like
“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn
about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the
lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor
their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb
fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family,
fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without
thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to
think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with
cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the
great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's
deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.”
― Charles Bukowski
292
like
“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them
too well.”
― Charles Bukowski
292
like
“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
― Charles Bukowski
284
like
“Life's as kind as you let it be.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music
tags: life , truth
269
like
“...in that drunken place
you would
like to hand your heart to her
and say
touch it
but then
give it back.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
264
like
“Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
--
Mv. Bo M Mogensen
The Genius Of The Crowd
http://alturl.com/nbj6g Charles Bukowski
+
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHntZsJiOWk
Charles Bukowski quotes (showing 1-50 of 526)
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski
Quill
tags: humor
4,964
like
“Do you hate people?
I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
2,053
like
“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered.
But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big
answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and
discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a
dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the
church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We
are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our
lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: atheism , religion
1,635
like
“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a
drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if
something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing
happens you drink to make something happen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
tags: alcohol
1,164
like
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
1,097
like
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your
mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean
freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It
could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are
a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And,
you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be
better than anything else you can imagine. 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, Factotum
tags: fire , flame , isolation , laughter , loss , sacrifice
1,073
like
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should
make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened
by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski
1,059
like
“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
tags: humour
998
like
“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
880
like
“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
847
like
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a
hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski
776
like
“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski
771
like
“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've
been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt
that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering
me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words,
loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've
always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at
a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel
loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone."
I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and
give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't
help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you
going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out
there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let
them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to
rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in
factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been
lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's
drink more wine!”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: loneliness
749
like
“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a
soul left to lose”
― Charles Bukowski
709
like
“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski
696
like
“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring
damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”
― Charles Bukowski
622
like
“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to,
keeps little photographs of.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
tags: love
611
like
“there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.
people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.
people just are not good to each other
one on one.
the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.
we are afraid.
our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.
it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.
or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone
untouched
unspoken to
watering a plant.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
570
like
“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
― Charles Bukowski
554
like
“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: humor
495
like
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office
435
like
“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism
of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of
your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the
feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to
return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing
yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or
fifteen thousand lives now.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: bukowski , drinking
432
like
“Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.”
― Charles Bukowski
430
like
“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.”
― Charles Bukowski
427
like
“I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: humour
412
like
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never
entirely recover.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
404
like
“you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgot to get old. ”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
tags: women
395
like
“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there
was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group
encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel,
withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting,
composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling,
drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha,
Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New
York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find
things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
tags: humans , philosophy , society
394
like
“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
― Charles Bukowski
392
like
“the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically
because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
388
like
“It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a
place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one
usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at
6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit,
piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where
essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to
be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
383
like
“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the
world.”
― Charles Bukowski
382
like
“We are
Born like this
Into this
Into these carefully mad wars
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
Born into this
Into hospitals which are so expensive that it’s cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much it’s cheaper to plead guilty
Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes”
― Charles Bukowski
381
like
“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the
slow movement of the hands of a clock”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
tags: loneliness
369
like
“there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman
saves you she makes ready to destroy”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
tags: women
364
like
“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad
sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it.
I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it
pretty often, too often.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
358
like
“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
― Charles Bukowski
358
like
“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly
they lacked the ability to feel or love.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
353
like
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with
the color of forgotten love.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
352
like
“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain
arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to
anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an
idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands
how you feel, and knows how to help.”
― Charles Bukowski
321
like
“This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence.
Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods,
you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very
important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few.
That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: humor-philosophy
310
like
“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: poetry
310
like
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is
grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women
304
like
“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have
bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting”
― Charles Bukowski
tags: bukowski
296
like
“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn
about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the
lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor
their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb
fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family,
fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without
thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to
think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with
cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the
great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's
deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.”
― Charles Bukowski
292
like
“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them
too well.”
― Charles Bukowski
292
like
“Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.”
― Charles Bukowski
284
like
“Life's as kind as you let it be.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music
tags: life , truth
269
like
“...in that drunken place
you would
like to hand your heart to her
and say
touch it
but then
give it back.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
264
like
“Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum
--
Mv. Bo M Mogensen
The Genius Of The Crowd
http://alturl.com/nbj6g Charles Bukowski
+
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHntZsJiOWk
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> like
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> "For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered.
>
> But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big
>
> answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and
>
> discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a
>
> dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the
>
> church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We
>
> are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our
>
> lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 2,053
>
> like
>
> "For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered.
>
> But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big
>
> answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and
>
> discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a
>
> dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the
>
> church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We
>
> are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our
>
> lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
>
>
> tags: atheism , religion
>
> 1,635
>
> like
>
> "That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a
>
> drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if
>
> something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing
>
> happens you drink to make something happen."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Women
> tags: atheism , religion
>
> 1,635
>
> like
>
> "That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a
>
> drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if
>
> something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing
>
> happens you drink to make something happen."
>
>
> tags: alcohol
>
> 1,164
>
> like
>
> "My ambition is handicapped by laziness"
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Factotum
> tags: alcohol
>
> 1,164
>
> like
>
> "My ambition is handicapped by laziness"
>
>
> 1,097
>
> like
>
> "If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
>
> This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your
>
> mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean
>
> freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It
>
> could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are
>
> a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And,
>
> you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be
>
> better than anything else you can imagine. 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, Factotum
> 1,097
>
> like
>
> "If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
>
> This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your
>
> mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean
>
> freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It
>
> could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are
>
> a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And,
>
> you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be
>
> better than anything else you can imagine. 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."
>
>
> tags: fire , flame , isolation , laughter , loss , sacrifice
>
> 1,073
>
> like
>
> "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should
>
> make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened
>
> by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> tags: fire , flame , isolation , laughter , loss , sacrifice
>
> 1,073
>
> like
>
> "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should
>
> make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened
>
> by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
>
>
> 1,059
>
> like
>
> "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
> 1,059
>
> like
>
> "Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not
>
>
> you've felt that way."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> you've felt that way."
>
>
> tags: humour
>
> 998
>
> like
>
> "You have to die a few times before you can really
>
> live."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
> tags: humour
>
> 998
>
> like
>
> "You have to die a few times before you can really
>
> live."
>
>
> 880
>
> like
>
> "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
> 880
>
> like
>
> "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"
>
>
> 847
>
> like
>
> "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a
>
> hard thing in a simple way."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 847
>
> like
>
> "An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a
>
> hard thing in a simple way."
>
>
> 776
>
> like
>
> "Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 776
>
> like
>
> "Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."
>
>
> 771
>
> like
>
> "I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've
>
> been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt
>
> that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering
>
> me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words,
>
> loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've
>
> always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at
>
> a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel
>
> loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone."
>
> I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and
>
> give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't
>
> help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you
>
> going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out
>
> there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let
>
> them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to
>
> rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in
>
> factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been
>
> lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's
>
> drink more wine!"
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 771
>
> like
>
> "I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've
>
> been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt
>
> that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering
>
> me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words,
>
> loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've
>
> always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at
>
> a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel
>
> loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone."
>
> I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and
>
> give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't
>
> help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you
>
> going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out
>
> there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let
>
> them stupidify themselves. I've never been bothered with the need to
>
> rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in
>
> factories. That's all. Sorry for all the millions, but I've never been
>
> lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's
>
> drink more wine!"
>
>
> tags: loneliness
>
> 749
>
> like
>
> "If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a
>
> soul left to lose"
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> tags: loneliness
>
> 749
>
> like
>
> "If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a
>
> soul left to lose"
>
>
> 709
>
> like
>
> "what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 709
>
> like
>
> "what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"
>
>
> 696
>
> like
>
> "Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring
>
> damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 696
>
> like
>
> "Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring
>
> damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."
>
>
> 622
>
> like
>
> "I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to,
>
> keeps little photographs of."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
> 622
>
> like
>
> "I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to,
>
> keeps little photographs of."
>
>
> 570
>
> like
>
> "There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
>
> but I'm too tough for him,
>
> I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 570
>
> like
>
> "There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
>
> but I'm too tough for him,
>
> I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
>
>
> 554
>
> like
>
> "Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 554
>
> like
>
> "Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink."
>
>
> tags: humor
>
> 495
>
> like
>
> "I wanted the whole world or nothing."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Post Office
> tags: humor
>
> 495
>
> like
>
> "I wanted the whole world or nothing."
>
>
> 435
>
> like
>
> "Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism
>
> of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of
>
> your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the
>
> feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to
>
> return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing
>
> yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or
>
> fifteen thousand lives now."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 435
>
> like
>
> "Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism
>
> of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of
>
> your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the
>
> feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to
>
> return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing
>
> yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or
>
> fifteen thousand lives now."
>
>
> tags: bukowski , drinking
>
> 432
>
> like
>
> "Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> tags: bukowski , drinking
>
> 432
>
> like
>
> "Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing."
>
>
> 430
>
> like
>
> "those who escape hell
>
> however
>
> never talk about
>
> it
>
> and nothing much
>
> bothers them
>
> after
>
> that."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 430
>
> like
>
> "those who escape hell
>
> however
>
> never talk about
>
> it
>
> and nothing much
>
> bothers them
>
> after
>
> that."
>
>
> 427
>
> like
>
> "I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 427
>
> like
>
> "I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around."
>
>
> tags: humour
>
> 412
>
> like
>
> "A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never
>
> entirely recover."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
> tags: humour
>
> 412
>
> like
>
> "A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never
>
> entirely recover."
>
>
> 404
>
> like
>
> "you boys can keep your virgins
>
> give me hot old women in high heels
>
> with asses that forgot to get old. "
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
> 404
>
> like
>
> "you boys can keep your virgins
>
> give me hot old women in high heels
>
> with asses that forgot to get old. "
>
>
> tags: women
>
> 395
>
> like
>
> "Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there
>
> was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group
>
> encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel,
>
> withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting,
>
> composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling,
>
> drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha,
>
> Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New
>
> York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find
>
> things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Women
> tags: women
>
> 395
>
> like
>
> "Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there
>
> was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group
>
> encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel,
>
> withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting,
>
> composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling,
>
> drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha,
>
> Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New
>
> York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find
>
> things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice."
>
>
> tags: humans , philosophy , society
>
> 394
>
> like
>
> "Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
>
> some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
>
> some lose both and become accepted"
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> tags: humans , philosophy , society
>
> 394
>
> like
>
> "Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
>
> some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
>
> some lose both and become accepted"
>
>
> 392
>
> like
>
> "the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically
>
> because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
> 392
>
> like
>
> "the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically
>
> because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them."
>
>
> 388
>
> like
>
> "It was true that I didn't have much ambition, but there ought to be a
>
> place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one
>
> usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at
>
> 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit,
>
> piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where
>
> essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to
>
> be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Factotum
> 388
>
> like
>
> "It was true that I didn't have much ambition, but there ought to be a
>
> place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one
>
> usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at
>
> 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit,
>
> piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where
>
> essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to
>
> be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"
>
>
> 383
>
> like
>
> "my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the
>
> world."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 383
>
> like
>
> "my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the
>
> world."
>
>
> 382
>
> like
>
> "We are
>
> Born like this
>
> Into this
>
> Into these carefully mad wars
>
> Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
>
> Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
>
> Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
>
> Born into this
>
> Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die
>
> Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty
>
> Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
>
> Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes"
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 382
>
> like
>
> "We are
>
> Born like this
>
> Into this
>
> Into these carefully mad wars
>
> Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
>
> Into bars where people no longer speak to each other
>
> Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings
>
> Born into this
>
> Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die
>
> Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty
>
> Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed
>
> Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes"
>
>
> 381
>
> like
>
> "there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the
>
> slow movement of the hands of a clock"
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
> 381
>
> like
>
> "there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the
>
> slow movement of the hands of a clock"
>
>
> tags: loneliness
>
> 369
>
> like
>
> "there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman
>
> saves you she makes ready to destroy"
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell
> tags: loneliness
>
> 369
>
> like
>
> "there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman
>
> saves you she makes ready to destroy"
>
>
> tags: women
>
> 364
>
> like
>
> "I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad
>
> sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it.
>
> I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it
>
> pretty often, too often."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness
> tags: women
>
> 364
>
> like
>
> "I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad
>
> sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it.
>
> I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it
>
> pretty often, too often."
>
>
> 358
>
> like
>
> "The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 358
>
> like
>
> "The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable."
>
>
> 358
>
> like
>
> "People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly
>
> they lacked the ability to feel or love."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Women
> 358
>
> like
>
> "People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly
>
> they lacked the ability to feel or love."
>
>
> 353
>
> like
>
> "I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with
>
> the color of forgotten love."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
> 353
>
> like
>
> "I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with
>
> the color of forgotten love."
>
>
> 352
>
> like
>
> "Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain
>
> arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to
>
> anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an
>
> idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands
>
> how you feel, and knows how to help."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 352
>
> like
>
> "Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain
>
> arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to
>
> anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an
>
> idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands
>
> how you feel, and knows how to help."
>
>
> 321
>
> like
>
> "This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence.
>
> Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods,
>
> you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very
>
> important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few.
>
> That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 321
>
> like
>
> "This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence.
>
> Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods,
>
> you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very
>
> important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few.
>
> That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful."
>
>
> tags: humor-philosophy
>
> 310
>
> like
>
> "Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> tags: humor-philosophy
>
> 310
>
> like
>
> "Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."
>
>
> tags: poetry
>
> 310
>
> like
>
> "You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is
>
> grandiose romanticism or politics."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski, Women
> tags: poetry
>
> 310
>
> like
>
> "You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is
>
> grandiose romanticism or politics."
>
>
> 304
>
> like
>
> "We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have
>
> bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting"
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> 304
>
> like
>
> "We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have
>
> bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting"
>
>
> tags: bukowski
>
> 296
>
> like
>
> "There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn
>
> about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the
>
> lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor
>
> their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb
>
> fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family,
>
> fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without
>
> thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to
>
> think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with
>
> cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the
>
> great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's
>
> deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die."
>
> -- Charles Bukowski
> tags: bukowski
>
> 296
>
> like
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> "There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn
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> about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the
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> lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor
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> their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb
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> fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family,
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> fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without
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> thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to
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> think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with
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> cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the
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> great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's
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> deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die."
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> "Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them
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> -- Charles Bukowski
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> "Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them
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> "Great art is horseshit, buy tacos."
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> -- Charles Bukowski
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> "Great art is horseshit, buy tacos."
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> "Life's as kind as you let it be."
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> -- Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music
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> "Life's as kind as you let it be."
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> "...in that drunken place
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> you would
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> like to hand your heart to her
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> and say
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> touch it
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> but then
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> give it back."
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> -- Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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> "...in that drunken place
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> you would
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> "Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."
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> -- Charles Bukowski, Factotum
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> "Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."
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