Quotes of Charles Bukowski - somelinesforyou

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

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

“ Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. ”

- 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

“ If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. ”

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

“ The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act. ”

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

“ Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone. ”

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

“ We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain. ”

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

“ The less I say the better I feel. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ Music is much like fucking, but some composers can’t climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don’t do it. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ Writing about a writer’s block is better than not writing at all. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ Don’t ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ Never get out of bed before noon. ”

- Charles Bukowski

“ Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way. ”

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski

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

- Charles Bukowski
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