Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowskiwas an American poet, novelist, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 August 1920
CityAndernach, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
Charles Bukowski quotes about
light people darkness
since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
morning smoking cigarette
we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.
love too-much used
and love is a word used too much and much too soon.
chance distracted persons
Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?
heart hands rocks
my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.
beautiful fighting promise
as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.
lonely museums empty
The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.
good-night nice rain
I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
death country flower
There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
cities sick sidewalk
I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.
beautiful way desperate
She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.
odds perspective people
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.
strong crazy real
I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.
men bridges good-man
Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.