Charles Bukowski: Quotes about love

Charles Bukowski was American writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Charles Bukowski: 1110 quotes288 likes

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“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.”

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”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

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.

“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

“love be damned now
as love was damned when it
first arrived.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“in this room
the hours of love
still make shadows.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned

“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 52

“it's colder than hell (yes) but
the blankets are thin,
and the pulled-down shades
are as full of holes as love is.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. People so tired, mutilated either by love or no love.”

Charles Bukowski

“Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“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.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office (1971)

“I have loved you woman
as surely as I have named you
rust and sand and nylon.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“my 6 foot goddess
makes me laugh
the laughter of the mutilated
who still need
love…

she has saved me
from everything that is
not here”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“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.”

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.

“A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class”

Charles Bukowski

“You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Source: Pulp

“Those who preach god, need god
Those who preach peace do not have peace
Those who preach love do not have love”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“There's nothing unusual about love.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Variant: sometimes there's nothing to say
about
death.
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.”