"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.












More Charles Bukowski quotes
"The ass is the face of the soul of sex.
"Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt.
"My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
"Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
"Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.
"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
"It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.
"when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable.we...
"Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created h...
"I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.
"Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When ...
"in the most decent sometimes sun there is the softsmoke feeling from urns and the canned sound of old battleplanes and if you go inside and run your f...
"Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.
"There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help.