BUKOWSKI QUOTES

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire… Pain arrives and you have to let go of who you were before it arrived.”

“I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around.”

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

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“I don’t believe in God, but I’m afraid of Him.”

“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.”

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

“I’ve never been lonely. I’ve been in a room — I’ve felt suicidal. I’ve been depressed. I’ve felt awful — awful beyond all — but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me…or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I’ve never been bothered with because I’ve always had this terrible itch for solitude. It’s being at a party, or at a stadium full of people cheering for something, that I might feel loneliness. I’ll quote Ibsen, ‘The strongest men are the most alone.’ I’ve never thought, ‘Well, some beautiful blonde will come in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I’ll feel good.’ No, that won’t help. You know the typical crowd, ‘Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?’ Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. I hid in bars, because I didn’t want to hide in factories. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have. Let’s drink more wine!”

“I’m smelly and I’m dirty, I’m not legit. I’m 30 and I’m flirty, I’m never legit. I’m nobody’s gift.”

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

“The less I needed, the better I felt.”

“I really believe that finding yourself is about looking backward just as much as it is about looking forward.”

“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.” QUOTES TO SAY TO YOUR GIRLFRIEND TO MAKE HER SMILE

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“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?'”

“I’ve never been a millionaire but I just know I’d be darling at it.”

“I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around.”

“I don’t like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.”

“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”

“My ambition is handicapped by both my laziness and lack of ambition.”

“I don’t know why, but the ugliness of poverty and the thoughtlessness of wealth both stripped away my good cheer.”

“To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.”

“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift, all the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And you’ll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.”

“The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn’t interest you.”

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”

“What a weary time those years were — to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”

“There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you, she makes ready to destroy.”