CHARLES BUKOWSKI QUOTE ABOUT WORK

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

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

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

“Nobody can save you but yourself.”

“Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?”

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

“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.”

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

“You have to be very careful when you let someone in your house, and it’s the same with your head.”

“There is something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it’s not something that you get over. I don’t believe there’s a healing process.”

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

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

“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.”

“Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.”

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

“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?” QUOTES ABOUT WHEN LIFE KNOCKS YOU DOWN

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

“We are all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.”

“You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”

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

“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?'”

“Stay with the beer. Beer is continuous blood. A continuous lover.”

“Do you hate people?”

“No, but I seem to feel better when they’re not around.”

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

“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!”

“Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.”

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

“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 suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It’s like killing yourself, and then you’re reborn. I guess I’ve lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”

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