Charles Bukowski Quotes, Thoughts and Images

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

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.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.

nobody can save you but yourself and you’re worth saving. it’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.

The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Do you hate people? I don't hate them.. I just feel better when they're not around.

Are you becoming what you've always hated?

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Only the boring get bored

I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here.