I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can’t stand hounds can’t live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

— Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Quotes

Life’s as kind as you let it be.

— Charles Bukowski
Short About Life Live Life

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.

— Charles Bukowski
Depressing Sad About Life Depression

Without literature, life is hell.

— Charles Bukowski
Deep About Life Fiction Depressing Sad

There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.

— Charles Bukowski
Sad About Life Sorrow Longing Loneliness

I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.

— Charles Bukowski
Love Life Couple I Love You for Her I Love My Wife

But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

— Charles Bukowski

I feel strangely normal.

— Charles Bukowski

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

— Charles Bukowski

There’s nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death.

— Charles Bukowski
Flower

I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.

— Charles Bukowski

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn’t always there.

— Charles Bukowski

I am this fiery snail crawling home.

— Charles Bukowski

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.

— Charles Bukowski

I don’t carry notebooks and I don’t consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don’t like writers, but then I don’t like insurance salesmen either.

— Charles Bukowski

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I’ve had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I’m not writing than when I am.

— Charles Bukowski

I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

— Charles Bukowski

Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn’t know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar.

— Charles Bukowski

I seldom know what I’m going to write when I sit down. There isn’t much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing’s easy, it’s the living that is sometimes difficult.

— Charles Bukowski

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I’m not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn’t much good.

— Charles Bukowski

I write right off the typer. I call it my “machinegun.” I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

— Charles Bukowski
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