Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
Charles Bukowski: Quotes about love (page 2)
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“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
Charles Bukowski
book
Women
Variant: Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Source: Women
“Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love”
Post Office (1971)
Context: Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“love be damned now
as love was damned when it
first arrived.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“in this room
the hours of love
still make shadows.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned
Charles Bukowski
book
Factotum
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 52
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“I have loved you woman
as surely as I have named you
rust and sand and nylon.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Charles Bukowski
book
Women
Source: Women (1978)
Context: I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.
“You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.”
Charles Bukowski
book
Pulp
Source: Pulp
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“There's nothing unusual about love.”
Variant: sometimes there's nothing to say
about
death.
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966