Charles Bukowski Quotes

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.

Only the boring get bored

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

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.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

Are you becoming what you've always hated?

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

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

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.

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

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

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

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

The less I needed, the better I felt.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Find what you love and let it kill you.

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

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

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