Charles Bukowski: Likeness

Charles Bukowski was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.
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“I suppose like others
I have come through fire and sword,
love gone wrong,
head-on crashes, drunk at sea,
and I have listened to the simple sound of water running
in tubs
and wished to drown”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“the writing of some
men
is like a vast bridge
that carries you
over
the many things
that claw and tear.

The Wine of Forever”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife
inside
because there was no alternative except to hide as long
as possible---
not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance:
trying to connect.”

Charles Bukowski

“Dying should come easy:
like a freight train you
don't hear when
your back is
turned.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Flash of Lightning Behind the Mountain: New Poems

“I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Ham On Rye (1982)
Source: Ham on Rye
Context: The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go.

“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I was their bar freak, they needed me
to make themselves feel
better.
just like, at times, I needed that
graveyard.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a. m.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.”

Charles Bukowski

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