Best Quotes by Charles Bukowski (Top 10)

  1. Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
  2. You have to die a few times before you can really live.
  3. The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
  4. That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
  5. An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
  6. If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
  7. Find what you love and let it kill you.
  8. I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.
  9. The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
  10. Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

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