Charles Bukowski: Quotes about people

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence.”

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them… I just feel better when they're not around.”

“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”

“I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?”

“Look, you're small-town. I've had over 50 jobs, maybe a hundred. I've never stayed anywhere long. What I am trying to say is, there is a certain game played in offices all over America. The people are bored, they don't know what to do, so they play the office-romance game. Most of the time it means nothing but the passing of time. Sometimes they do manage to work off a screw or two on the side. But even then, it is just an offhand pasttime, like bowling or t. v. or a New Year's Eve party. You've got to understand that it doesn't mean anything and then you won't get hurt. Do you understand what I mean?”

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”

“great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.

good human beings save the world
so that bastards like me can keep creating art,
become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead
it means I made it.”

“I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.”

“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”

“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”

“writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”

“Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.”

“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.”