"I am a poem. There is no way out."
Read quote
14 likes
Quote collection
Charles Bukowski quotes (page 11 of 41)
813 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"and love is a word used too much and much too soon."
Read quote
14 likes
"My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other."
Read quote
14 likes
"As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished."
Read quote
14 likes
"Poetry is what happens when nothing else can."
Read quote
14 likes
"unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it"
Read quote
14 likes
"I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it."
Read quote
14 likes
"Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening."
Read quote
14 likes
"when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns"
Read quote
14 likes
"He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare."
Read quote
14 likes
"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."
Read quote
13 likes
"I have no time for things that have no soul."
Read quote
13 likes
"Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die."
Read quote
13 likes
"There still might be a place for us somewhere."
Read quote
13 likes
"It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun"
Read quote
13 likes
"People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed."
Read quote
13 likes
"as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday."
Read quote
13 likes
"It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any."
Read quote
13 likes
"Our disappointment sits between us."
Read quote
13 likes
"Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad"
Read quote
13 likes