Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994) was considered a great writer, as well as cursed. Your thoughts and phrases are not your typical thoughts, nor are they typical phrases. It makes you think "out of the pot" about human existence and life ... among many other thoughts. It focused on dirty realism and independent literature.
He lived life to the fullest, always acted with his instincts in mind and reflected on whatever he put on paper. He had dozens of works and wrote poetry, novels, essays, and short stories. He lived with a lot of alcohol, sex, violence and heartbreak ... themes that he embodied in many of his works. Writing for Charles was like a catharsis that not everyone could understand.
He wrote about what happened to him every day, he did not consider himself happy because he did not believe in happiness and this thought is reflected in his sentences. Believe it or not, Charles Bukowski is a writer who, although he died in 1994, is still widely read and admired by many. Next we are going to leave you some phrases that will surely not leave you indifferent.
Charles Bukowski quotes
- Civilization is a lost cause; politics, an absurd lie; work, a cruel joke.
- Love is for real people.
- He never felt lonely; the more separated from people he was, the better he felt.
- There are no angels in the trenches.
- Sometimes I look at my hands and I realize that I could have been a great pianist or something. But what have my hands done? Scratching my balls, signing checks, tying shoes, flushing the toilets, etc. I have wasted my hands. And my mind.
- If you want to know who your real friends are, get them thrown in jail.
- She was a more or less good soul, but the world is full of more or less good souls and look where we are.
- I went very little to the movies because I was enough myself to kill my time, I didn't need extra help.
- What matters is how well you walk through fire.
- Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
- How sad those years were, having the desire and the need to live but not having the ability.
- The problem with the world is that smart people are full of doubts while stupid people are self-confident.
- Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what suits you.
- Great writers are indecent people. They live unfairly, saving the best for paper.
- That's the problem with drinking, I thought, pouring myself a drink.
- 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.
- They can see you dying in a gutter and they will pass you and spit on you.
- It wasn't my day. Neither my week, and my month and my year. Not my life. Damn!
- Sometimes insignificant people who stay in one place for a long time, achieve a certain power and prestige.
- It is good to feel hostility, it keeps a clear head.
- Man is born to die - what does that mean? Wasting time and waiting. Wait for the collective. Expecting a pair of boobs some August night in a hotel room in Las Vegas. Wait for the mice to sing. Wait for the snakes to grow wings. Wasting time.
- Death is smoking my cigars.
- When love becomes a command, hate can become a pleasure.
- I don't care what they do to me when I die; They can burn me, they can slice me, they can give my balls to science, I don't care.
- An intellectual says a simple thing in a complicated way. An artist says a complicated thing in a simple way.
- Of course it is possible to love other people if you don't know them well.
- Love? People don't want love; they want to succeed, and one of the things they can do is in love.
- I like to think of all those people who taught me things that I had never imagined before.
- If you want to know where God is, ask a drunkard.
- No pain means the end of the feeling; each of our joys is a deal with the devil.
- We are here to kill the war. We are here to laugh at fate and live our life so well that death trembles upon receiving us.
- In the end we ended up crazy and alone.
- What I really needed was a bottle of beer with the wet label and those beautiful cold drops on the surface of the glass.
- You can easily identify the free soul when you see it.
- Sometimes a man has to fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.
- Most of the time, the best thing in life is to do nothing at all, to spend time reflecting.
- Faith is fine for those who have it, as long as they don't throw it over my head. I have more faith in my plumber than in being eternal. Plumbers do a good job. They let the shit flow.
- There will always be money and whores and drunkards, until the last bomb drops.
- More than one good man has ended up in the stream because of a woman.
- If you are a failure, chances are good that you are an excellent writer.
- The road to hell will be full of company, but it will still be tremendously lonely.
- Almost all are born geniuses and are buried fools.
- I'd rather hear about an American wanderer today than a dead Greek god.
- It seems to me that life is totally devoid of interest, and I felt this especially when I was working eight hours a day. Most of the men worked eight hours a day, and they didn't love life either. There is no reason to love life for someone who works eight hours a day, because he is a loser.
- The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you can vote before obeying orders. In a dictatorship you don't have to waste time voting.
