Charles Bukowski: Quotes about love

“Love breaks my
bones and I
laugh”

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”

“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.”

“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.”

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“Don’t do it. Don’t love me.”

“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”

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

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

“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”

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

“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.”

“one more creature
dizzy with love”

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

“and love was lightning and remembrance”