Charles Bukowski: Trending quotes (page 25)

“I was fairly poor
but most of my money went
for wine and
classical music.
I loved to mix the two
together.”

“As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.”

“We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.”

“Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.”

“It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.”

“I'll use the knives for spreading
jam, and the gas to warm
my greying love.”

“It’s not so much that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing.
there’s no release, just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.”

“How are his poems?"
"He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.”

“First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L. A. Public Library.”

“Love dries up, I thought
as I walked back to the
bathroom, even faster
than sperm.”

“theres no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
nobody ever finds
the one.”

“my hands dead
my heart dead
silence
adagio of rocks
the world ablaze
that's the best
for me.”

“You were destroyed by what you befriended.”

“all people start to
come apart finally
and there it is:
just empty ashtrays in a room
or wisps of hair on a comb
in the dissolving moonlight.”

“there are policemen in the street
and angels in the clouds”

“I know what a park bench is and the landlord's knock. There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”

“Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.”

“i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer”

“it was going to be all right.
at last.
for a while.”