Charles Bukowski: Trending quotes (page 4)

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

“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?”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Lighting new cigarettes,
pouring more
drinks.

It has been a beautiful
fight.

Still
is.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”