The 75 best phrases of Charles Bukowski

Melancholy, existential doubts about life, love and a touch of mysticism. They are the elements that embody the works of Charles Bukowski, one of the most influential writers and iconic 20th-century characters whose unique writing signature served as the inspiration for novel approaches to literature.

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Great quotes from Charles Bukowski

If you still do not know this writer, but perhaps you have heard about him, we bring you below the greatest quotes from Charles Bukowski about the world and some of his works.

1. What the hell does a man get out of thinking? Just trouble.

Don't focus on the problems, pause and move on.

2. There will always be money and whores and drunkards, until the last bomb drops.

Money and pleasures will always exist.

3. If you want to know who your friends are, have them put you in jail.

Bad times are when true friends meet.

4. There is always someone about to ruin your day, if not your life.

All around us we find people who only seek to harm us in some way.

5. People without morals often considered themselves freer, but most were incapable of feeling hatred or love.

People who believe themselves superior are those who do not have any kind of feelings.

6. You have to die a few times before you can truly live.

Don't let bad times rule your life. Keep going, even if it's difficult.

7. The free soul is rare, but you can easily identify it when you see it.

A person without any type of ties stands out above the others.

8. Some people never freak out. What a horrible life they must have.

There are those who believe that in madness is the true art.

9. It's amazing what a man has to do just to be able to eat, sleep, and dress.

Meeting needs requires effort, strength, and wisdom.

10. It wasn't my day. Neither my week, and my month and my year. Not my life. Damn!

There are times when we see everything black, without any kind of exit.

11. Civilization is a lost cause; politics, an absurd lie; work, a cruel joke.

The world is in chaos.

12. Love burns with the first sun of reality.

If love isn't true, it quickly evaporates.

13. I stopped looking for a dream girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

Perfect people don't exist.

14. Nothing on the land available to anyone should be confiscated and outlawed by others in positions of more power.

The rights of people are inviolable.

15. There are no angels in the trenches.

Shelters are places where pain is present.

16. What can a poet do without pain? You need it as much as the typewriter.

The pain that is felt in the soul has been the muse of several artists.

17. I love you as a man loves a woman he has never touched, about whom he only writes and of whom he keeps a photo.

The ideal, honest and moral love also exists.

18. She was a more or less good soul, but the world is full of more or less good souls and look where we are.

Even when there are many good souls, the evil is still present.

19. An intellectual is one who says a simple thing in a complicated way; An artist is one who says a complicated thing in a simple way.

The problem is not what is said, but how it is explained.

20. It was a world full of hideous love songs.

We are losing the ability to fall in love through a beautiful melody.

21. My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.

There are people who feel old, even when they are young on the outside.

22. I'd like to cry, but grief is stupid. I would like to believe, but faith is a graveyard.

We must not let our beliefs prevent us from showing our feelings.

23. Hell's road will be full of company, but it will still be tremendously lonely.

Even when we are in company, we feel alone.

24. And then there is, of course, the madness and terror of knowing that some part of you is like a clock that cannot be wound again, once it is stopped.

Death is inevitable.

25. Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

We can be accompanied and feel the presence of loneliness.

26. The difference between a brave man and a coward is that a coward thinks twice before jumping into the cage with a lion. The brave man simply does not know what a lion is. He just thinks he knows.

Prudence is often the ideal.

27. There are times when a man has to fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

Life is a constant struggle.

28. The less he needed, the better I felt.

If you focus on all your needs, you will never be happy.

29. I often carry things to read so I don't have to look at people.

Reading is more interesting than talking with other people.

30. My ambition is limited by my laziness.

The comfort zone holds us back from moving forward.

31. Sometimes I look at my hands and I realize that he could have been a great pianist or something.

There are times when we long to have been someone else.

32. Marie: I love you; you are very good to me. But I must go, I don't know exactly why; i'm crazy i guess. Goodbye.

There are those who are not cut out for a formal relationship.

33. Every time someone spoke to me, I wanted to jump out the window or escape in the elevator.

On many occasions we cannot bear the presence of some people.

34. Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what suits you.

Love is hard to understand.

35. The good parts of our relationship were like a rat churning and biting me in the stomach.

There are people who have a very toxic and dangerous relationship.

36. We are here to laugh at fate and live our life so well... that death will tremble to receive us.

Laugh as many times as you can.

37. What matters is how well you walk through fire.

No matter the circumstances, don't stop moving forward.

38. If there is garbage in hell, love is the dog that watches the doors.

A strange reference to love.

39. People do not need love, what they need is to succeed in one thing or another. It may be in love, but it is not essential.

People can be successful in any area of ​​their life.

40. I have wasted my hands. And my mind.

Sometimes we feel that we have not taken advantage of what life has offered us.

41. People just weren't interesting to me. Maybe she didn't have to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.

Animals, in most cases, are better company than people.

42. You have to die a few times before you can truly live.

Without hope the road is very difficult to travel.

43. It's hard for me to start life every morning.

Waking up each day is a blessing, but it is also difficult to live it.

44. In love and war anything goes, except crawling. In war you die standing up and in love you say goodbye with dignity.

Never lose respect for yourself.

45. He finds what you love and lets it kill you. Let it take all of you. Let it climb on your back and bring you down into nothingness.

When you find what you are looking for, hold on with all your might.

46. The man, despite his bravado, is the faithful, the one who generally feels love. The woman is an expert in treason. And the torture and doom.

It refers to the way of seeing the female figure.

47. I went very little to the movies because I was enough myself to kill my time, I didn't need extra help.

For many people, going out to have fun is a waste of time.

48. I felt good not being part of it. I was glad not to be in love, to not be happy with the world. I liked to disagree with everything.

There are times when we feel different and we don't fit into the world.

49. Sometimes you get out of bed in the morning and you think you won't be able to do it, but you laugh inside because you remember all the times you've felt that way.

We must not allow ourselves to be defeated. You always have to fight.

50. This is also how the dictatorship works, only that one enslaves and the other destroys its disinherited.

Society is also a form of dictatorship.

51. Sometimes insignificant people who stay in one place for a long time, achieve a certain power and prestige.

Constant work bears good fruit.

52. Never envy a man's wife. Behind all this is living hell. Appeared in a letter to Steve Richmond.

Leaving what others have does not move us forward.

53. People in love were often cutting, dangerous. They lost their sense of perspective. They lost their sense of humor. They got nervous, psychotic, bored. They even became murderers.

Love changes people. I always in a good way.

54. Knowledge, if you don't know how to apply it, is worse than ignorance.

We must put into practice what we have learned.

55. Anything can drive a man crazy because society is based on false foundations.

We encounter situations that drive our minds crazy.

56. Life is as pleasant as you allow it to be.

It depends on the optics how things are looked at, whether we are happy or not.

57. When something bad happens, you drink to forget it; if something good happens, you drink to celebrate; and if nothing happens, you also drink so that something happens.

We have found, in drinking, an opportunity to celebrate or forget.

58. When you are on the street is when you realize that everything has an owner.

Life on the street is not that easy.

59. Dogs have fleas, people have problems.

We all have difficulties in life.

60. Loneliness has never bothered me because I have always had it as an itch.

Loneliness, even if we don't want to, appears at the unexpected moment.

61. A man only brings out problems from thought.

We have many other things in mind that we must also release.

62. It's good to feel hostility, it keeps your head clear.

Never hold back any emotion.

63. Now, after decades, he was a writer with a desk. Yes, I felt the fear, the fear of becoming like them.

Falling into everyday life is stormy.

64. Of course it is possible to love another person if you don't know them well.

As we get to know someone, we can love them or stop loving them.

65. Waiting for death like a cat that will jump on the bed ...

There are those who sit and wait for the end.

66. The terrible thing is not death, but the lives that people live or do not live until their death.

There are people who live in a way that death is a blessing.

67. You start saving the world by saving a man.

Start small and you will end up doing something big.

68. Death is smoking my cigars.

Smoking causes serious health problems and even death.

69. Some lose their minds and go soul, crazy. Some lose their souls and become intellectual minds. Some lose both and are accepted.

Cultivating the soul and thought is essential at all times.

70. I like to think of all those people who taught me things that I had never imagined before.

Thank everyone who in any way contributed to your education.

71. There was a bit of music; then life seemed a little more pleasant, better.

Music calms, reassures and fills us with joy.

72. I wanted to cry but the tears never came out. It was that kind of sadness, sickly sadness, the one where you can't feel worse. I think everyone goes through it every so often, but for me it's too often, too often.

Sadness is a feeling that we can have at some point.

73. We are here to make the teachings of the church, the state and the educational system disappear.

We must dispense with those teachings that do not contribute anything.

74. When love becomes a command, hate can become a pleasure.

No one can force us to show love when we don't feel it.

75. We made love. We made love in the midst of sadness.

Love can also generate sadness.