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“If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside

on my fingertips
and at brain edges

and in centers
centers
of what I am of
what remains.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: Living on Luck

“Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?”

Charles Bukowski

“It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“I want to
let her know
though
that all the nights
sleeping
beside her

even the useless
arguments
were things
ever splendid

and the hard
words
I ever feared to
say
can now be
said:

I love
you.”

Charles Bukowski

“I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I want so much that is not here and do not know
where to go.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“Lighting new cigarettes,
pouring more
drinks.

It has been a beautiful
fight.

Still
is.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Some lose all mind and become soul, insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”

Charles Bukowski

Variant: Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted.

“There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”

Charles Bukowski

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”

Charles Bukowski

“she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Variant: Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they’ll spit on you.
Source: Women (1978)