"there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmo...












There's a light somewhere.It may not be much light butit beats the darkness.
More Charles Bukowski quotes
"When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself...
"I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn’t want conversation, or to goanywhere. I didn’t understand ot...
"I dislike interaction. The less I say the better I feel. I was naturally a loner. I didn’t want conversation, or to goanywhere. I didn’t understand ot...
"I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kin...
"The nights you fight best arewhen all the weapons are pointed at you,when all the voices hurl their insultswhile the dream is being strangled.The nigh...
"The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
"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.
"we must bringour own lightto thedarkness.
"be it peace or happinesslet it enfold you
"(the whole world is at thethroat of the world,everybody feels angry,short-changed, cheated,everybody is despondent,disillusioned.)I welcomed shots of ...
"shot in the eyeshot in the brainshot in the assshot like a flower in the danceamazing how death wins hands downamazing how much credence is given to i...
"since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
"That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
"It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun