50+ Best Quotes of Charles Bukowski for Success in Life

Best Quotes of Charles Bukowski : Charles Bukowski was a famous American poet, storyteller, and playwright. He was born on August 16, 1920 and died on March 9, 1994.

In his writings he raised his voice against social inequality, the condition of minorities, and excesses. His poems and stories were often full of alcohol, vulgarity, and conflict of all kinds.

His writing was simple, clear and truthful, which gave him a unique identity in the literary world. His famous books include ‘Post Office’, ‘Factotomy’, ‘Ham’ and ‘Blue Bird’. He wrote based on many incidents from his personal life which made his works unacceptable and adventurous.

In this post we are telling you the Best Quotes of Charles Bukowski, reading which you will get motivation in your life.

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Best Quotes of Charles Bukowski

1.An intellectual says simple things in a difficult way, an artist says difficult things in a simple way.

2.Suffering is caused by intelligence, the more you understand some things, the more you wish you had not understood them.

3.The 9 to 5 job is one of the biggest atrocities on mankind, you give your life to a job that doesn’t interest you.

4.If you get married they think you are finished and if you are without a woman they think you are incomplete.

5.Anything else is a waste of time unless you are doing well or creating well or recovering or moving toward some kind of love-happiness.

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6.Genius can be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

7.People are strange, they are constantly angry over small things, but they hardly notice a big matter like completely ruining a life.

8.You start saving the world by saving one person at a time, the rest is politics.

9.Beware of those who constantly seek the crowd, They are nothing alone.

10.People were usually much better in their letters than they were in reality, they were like poets that way.

Best Quotes From Charles Bukowski

11.If you have the capacity to love, love yourself first.

12.Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

13.Either I want the whole world or nothing.

14.Bad taste creates more millionaires than good taste.

15.I think most people think about injustice only when it happens to them.

Best Quotes about Charles Bukowski

16.I am a genius but no one knows it except me.

17.Sometimes you wake up in the morning and think, I will not be able to succeed, but you laugh inside remembering all the times when you have felt like this.

18.The problem with the world is that intelligent people are full of doubt, while foolish people are full of confidence.

19.There is a space in the heart that will never be filled.

20.I think people think about injustice only when it happens to them.

Charles Bukowski Best Quotes

21.There is a loneliness so great in this world that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock Charles Bukowski.

22.If you have to do something, do it, even if you lose your girlfriend, wife, job or your mind.

23.It’s not that I’m very good, but they’re so bad that I look good.

24.You have to die a few times before you can really live.

25.Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Best Quotes of Charles Bukowski

26.Good poets have very little to say, and bad poets have much to say.

27.You must die many times before you can live.

28.Have strong faith, and act as if it is impossible for you to fail.

29.People are strange, they are constantly angry over small things, but they hardly notice a big matter like completely ruining a life.

30.Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing, and there is a lot to smile about.

Charles Bukowski Quotes about Life

31.The most important thing is how well you walk on fire.

32.If you’re losing your soul and you know it, you still have a soul left to lose.

33.Love like that was a serious illness, one from which you never fully recover.

34.Of course it is possible to love a person if you do not know him well.

35.People without morality often considered themselves more free, but they mostly lacked the ability to feel or love.

Charles Bukowski Quotes on Sadness

36.We don’t even ask for happiness, just that the pain subsides a little.

37.You start out saving the world one person at a time, the rest is grandiose romanticism or politics.

38.We are like roses that never bothered to bloom when we should have and it seems as if the sun hates waiting.

39.There is always a woman to save you from the other and as soon as that woman saves you she is ready to destroy you.

40.How exhausting were those years when there was the will and need to live but not the ability.

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Charles Bukowski Quotes Freedom or Loneliness

41.The shortest distance between two points is often unmanageable.

42.Things go wrong for all of us almost constantly, and what we do under constant stress reflects who/what we are.

43.Some moments are good, some are good, some are even valuable about writing.

44.She was desperate and she was selective and, in a way, beautiful at the same time, but she didn’t have enough to become anything she imagined herself to be.

45.I drive down the streets an inch away from crying, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

Charles Bukowski Quotes about Happiness

46.I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to her: “Hello, baby, how are you? When are you coming for me? I’ll be ready.

47.I want to cry but it’s sad, stupid, i want to believe but belief is a graveyard.

48.Love is fine for those who can handle the mental overload. It’s like trying to carry an entire litter box on your back over a rushing river of urine.

49.She is no longer the beautiful woman she is. She sends pictures of herself sitting on a rock to Sagar, alone and doomed. I could do it once. I wonder if she thinks I might have saved her?

50.Anything else is a waste of time unless you’re fucking well or getting an erection good or getting well or moving toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.

51.Women always want other women’s husbands because it is not their nature but it is their desire.