Charles Bukowski: Trending quotes (page 19)

“the gods seldom
give
but so quickly
take.”

“I have loved you woman
as surely as I have named you
rust and sand and nylon.”

“And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.”

“it is good to be sitting some place
in public at 2:30 in the afternoon
without getting the flesh ripped from
your bones.”

“Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.”

“I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.”

“I am this fiery snail crawling home.”

“my 6 foot goddess
makes me laugh
the laughter of the mutilated
who still need
love…

she has saved me
from everything that is
not here”

“the masses are everywhere
they know how to do things:
they have sane and deadly angers
for sane and deadly
things.”

“we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.”

“don't be ashamed of
anything; I guess God meant it all
like
locks on
doors.”

“if you think they didn't go crazy
in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.”

“Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.”

“She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.”

“as a child
i suppose
i was not quite
normal.


my happiest times were
when
i was left alone in
the house on a
saturday.”

“My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.”

“I can't blame her. but
wonder why she's here with
me? where are the other
guys? how can you be
lucky? having someone the
others have abandoned?”

“It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”

“It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.”