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












More Charles Bukowski quotes
"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
"You women have more holes than swiss cheese.
"The ass is the face of the soul of sex.
"My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
"Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous th...
"beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those...
"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
"I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.
"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...
"I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that o...
"I sat back down and poured a glass of wine. I left my door open. The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, d...
"there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails.
"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...
"there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmo...