“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
— Charles Bukowski
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.”
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.”
“Life’s as kind as you let it be.”
“Without literature, life is hell.”
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
“I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around.”
“I have no time for things that have no soul.”
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside – remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”
“Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They’re always wrong.”
“We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.”
“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
“Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”
“Nothing can save you except writing. It keeps the walls from failing.”
“Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself.”
“Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.”
“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 trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
“Don’t fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.”
“I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.”
“You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. And the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. Your life is your life. Know it while you have it.”
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”
“There’s a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.”
“Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity.”
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.”
“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.”
““Baby,” I said, “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.””
“The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.”
“Only the boring get bored.”
“My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”
“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
“Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.”
“If you let them kill you, they will.”
“Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that.”
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it.”
“If you are going to try, go all the way or don’t even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.”
“Love breaks my bones and I laugh.”
“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.”
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”
“The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.”
“I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do – mostly with my time.”
“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
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