Bukowski Quotes

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”

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

“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.”

I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid

I write to save my own ass, to shove the grip of madness away from me with words.

I think of the men I've known in factories, with no way to get out---choking while living, choking while laughing

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

The world has taken many hours and years from me with their very dull and routine tasks

There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke

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

If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.

A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible

We were all insane in one way or another. Even the dogs and the cats were insane.

I wanted the whole world or nothing.

Drink is a form of escape

We’re all scared but when you’re ugly and you don’t have much left, you get strong

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

False morality is the disease of a people who are told what to think and how to act from an early beginning . . .of escape