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I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out. — Charles Bukowski

Everything is so sweetly awful, so continuously sweetly awful: the art of consummation: life eating life. — Charles Bukowski

It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life. — Charles Bukowski

sometimes it's hard to know
what to
do. — Charles Bukowski

Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing. — Charles Bukowski

Waiting
in a life full of little stories
for a death to come — Charles Bukowski

That boy was ready for his life to come, he would undoubtedly be highly successful, the lying little prick. — Charles Bukowski

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

Human relationships simply aren't
durable.
I think back to the women in
my life.
they seem non-existent. — Charles Bukowski

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun — Charles Bukowski

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life. — Charles Bukowski

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. — Charles Bukowski

Sometimes all we need to be able to continue alone
are the dead
rattling the walls
that close us in. — Charles Bukowski

the gods seldom
give
but so quickly
take. — Charles Bukowski

There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life. — Charles Bukowski

I like to prowl ordinary places
and taste the people-
from a distance. — Charles Bukowski

age is no crime but the shame of a deliberately wasted life among so many deliberately wasted lives is. — Charles Bukowski

Your life is your life — Charles Bukowski

One doesn't even think of
the liver
and if the liver
doesn't think of
us, that's
fine. — Charles Bukowski

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life. — Charles Bukowski

T was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on. — Charles Bukowski

I went from barrel to barrel. It was magic. Why hadn't someone told me? With this, life was great, a man was perfect, nothing could touch him. — Charles Bukowski

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt. — Charles Bukowski

I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have. — Charles Bukowski

Before my death I hope to obtain my life. — Charles Bukowski

The worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter. — Charles Bukowski

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it. — Charles Bukowski

I love you but
don't know what to
do. — Charles Bukowski

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity. — Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them. — Charles Bukowski

Life itself is not the miracle.
that pain should be so constant,
that's the miracle - — Charles Bukowski

I have been treated better than I should have been
not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women. — Charles Bukowski

Without literature, life is hell. — Charles Bukowski

Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire. — Charles Bukowski

Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard — Charles Bukowski

It does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go. — Charles Bukowski

Approaching 50, I am living a life that is less sunlit Waldman/Chabon than tattered Charles Bukowski. — Sandra Tsing Loh

People who eat 3 meals a day throughout life
have never really
tasted
Food ... — Charles Bukowski

She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it. — Charles Bukowski

Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I've got several degrees. Call me Mr. — Charles Bukowski

Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free. — Charles Bukowski

She slammed the door and
was gone.
I looked at the closed door
and at the doorknob
and strangely
I didn't feel
alone. — Charles Bukowski

To fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that your life and your death
will not be like
theirs. — Charles Bukowski

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. — Charles Bukowski

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go. — Charles Bukowski

And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life. — Charles Bukowski

Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.
Tomorrow would be a better day. — Charles Bukowski

It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it. — Charles Bukowski

She wasn't very
interesting
but few people
are. — Charles Bukowski

Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing. — Charles Bukowski

The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable — Charles Bukowski

I wasn't lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning. — Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be. — Charles Bukowski

I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life ... — Charles Bukowski

to ignore life at the proper time takes a special wisdom: like a Happy New Year to you all. — Charles Bukowski

Greater men than I have failed to agree with Life. — Charles Bukowski

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. — Charles Bukowski

I am a series of small victories and large defeats. — Charles Bukowski

There are so many days
when living stops and pulls up and sits
and waits like a train on the rails. — Charles Bukowski

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life. — Charles Bukowski

In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass. — Charles Bukowski

You understand, we just don't fuck with truth. — Charles Bukowski

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. — Charles Bukowski

No life anywhere, no life in this town or this place or in this weary existence — Charles Bukowski

When you take it away do it slowly and easily make it as if I were dying in my sleep instead of in my life, amen. — Charles Bukowski

I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski

Having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for. — Charles Bukowski

Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die. — Charles Bukowski

the gods play no
favorites. — Charles Bukowski

...there comes a time in each man's life when he must choose to stand or run. I choose to stand. — Charles Bukowski

I realized that her life
her feelings for things
had been ruined
along the way
and that I was no more than a
temporary
companion — Charles Bukowski

I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something. — Charles Bukowski

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself. — Charles Bukowski

DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG — Charles Bukowski

I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take. — Charles Bukowski

Your life is your life dont let it be clubed into dank submission — Charles Bukowski

Only the poor knew the meaning of life; the rich and the safe had to guess. — Charles Bukowski

I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't? — Charles Bukowski

Regret is mostly caused by not having
done anything. — Charles Bukowski

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type. — Charles Bukowski

Some men never
die
and some men never
live
but we're all alive
tonight. — Charles Bukowski

A life can change in a tenth of
a second.
or sometimes it can take
70
years. — Charles Bukowski

Fiction is an improvement on life — Charles Bukowski

What's fiction?" "Fiction is an improvement on life. — Charles Bukowski

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself. — Charles Bukowski

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it. — Charles Bukowski