Charles Bukowski: Trending quotes (page 21)

“I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.”

“the gods play no
favorites.”

“If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.”

“It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.”

“He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.”

“The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.”

“It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.”

“I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a
coffee cup in a park for old men playing
chess or silly games of some sort.”

“My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.”

“you are
yesterday's
bouquet so sadly
raided”

“That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.”

“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”

“Are you anti-black?
I'm anti-everything.”

“Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.”

“since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light”

“You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.”

“You get so alone at times that it just makes sense.”

“I run with the hunted.”

“It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.”