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“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

Charles Bukowski

The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”

Charles Bukowski

“the best part was
pulling down the
shades
stuffing the doorbell
with rags
putting the phone
in the
refrigerator
and going to bed
for 3 or 4
days.
and the next best
part
was
nobody ever
missed
me.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”

Charles Bukowski book Hot Water Music

Source: Hot Water Music

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”

Charles Bukowski

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

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 31

“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”

Charles Bukowski

“I think I need a drink.'
'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me everything you had
and how I offered you what was left of me.”

Charles Bukowski

“Don’t do it. Don’t love me.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“the best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them”

Charles Bukowski

Variant: The best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them.

“I was in love again. I was in trouble”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“one more creature
dizzy with love”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.”

Charles Bukowski

“There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.”

Charles Bukowski

“animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems