Charles Bukowski Quotes

813 quotes · Poet, Novelist

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Charles Bukowski Quotes

All Lonely Sad Angry Funny Spiritual 813 quotes · page 22 of 50

Poet, Novelist

Spiritual

“We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti”

Mad Sick Bird

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Charles Bukowski

Poet, Novelist

Angry

“The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.”

People Nice Monday

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Sad

“No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.”

Men Littles

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Compassionate

“mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?”

Thinking Race

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Angry

“The trouble with a mask is it never changes”

Trouble Mask Never Change

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Funny

“Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.”

Ordinary Exhibitions

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Hopeful

“Before my death I hope to obtain my life.”

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Hopeful

“It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.”

Book Pain Reading

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Calm

“they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?”

Beautiful Earth Solitude

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Sad

“my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”

World Soul

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Sad

“The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.”

Night

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Funny

“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.”

Emotional Drinking Beer

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