Charles Bukowski: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”

“I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love.”

“I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.”

“and love is a word used
too much and
much
too soon.”

“and love was lightning and remembrance”

“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”

“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.”

“those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.”

“Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their
lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.”

“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.”

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”

“people run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.”

“Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.”

“Money is like sex,' I said. 'It seems much more important when you don't have any…'

'You talk like a writer,' said Francois.”

“I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it.”

“we only asked for leopards to guard
our thinning dreams.”

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”

“They wouldn't fire me. Even the salesmen liked me. They were robbing the boss out the back door but I didn't say anything. That was their little game. It didn't interest me. I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”