Quotes by Charles Bukowski

About Charles Bukowski:

Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
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There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.

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we must bring our own light to the darkness.

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My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fas...

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there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and ...

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I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.

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It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.

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my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?" and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw

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my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

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the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.

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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suici...

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I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

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Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe. If you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become obvious yourself.

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I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advant...

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DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG

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If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

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Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'...

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She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.

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all people start to come apart finally and there it is: just empty ashtrays in a room or wisps of hair on a comb in the dissolving moonlight.

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That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience

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the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

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and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

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Author Bio

  • NameCharles Bukowski
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornAugust 16, 1920
  • DiedMarch 9, 1994
  • CountryGermany; United States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Writer; Screenwriter; Poet; Novelist