"We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivia...
Love is for real men.
More Charles Bukowski quotes
"My dear,Find what you love and let it kill you.Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness....
"Find what you love and let it kill you.
"Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one pers...
"we know God is dead, they’ toldus, but listening to you I wasn’ sure. maybeit was the upper case. you were one of thebest female poets and I told the ...
"my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why don't you ever smile?"and then sh...
"What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.
"Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right.""Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of...
"She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.
"People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.
"You bitch," I whispered, "I love you." Then I came.
"If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains.
"I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow.
"I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love.
"alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul,and the women break vases against the walls and them ...