Charles Bukowski Quotes

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Charles Bukowski
My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain tha

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don’t want it smoothed out.
Charles Bukowski
That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
Charles Bukowski
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
Charles Bukowski
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
Charles Bukowski
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
Charles Bukowski
I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.
Charles Bukowski
Can you remember who you were, before the world told yo

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
Charles Bukowski
Don’t fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.
Charles Bukowski
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.
Charles Bukowski
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
Charles Bukowski
The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.
Charles Bukowski
In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
Charles Bukowski