Death Quote by Charles Bukowski — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“girls”

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“the gods play no”

“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.”

“I killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, insect, fish didn't have a chance. The fix was in. I didn't know what to do about it. I got depressed. You know, I see a boy at the supermarket, he's packing my groceries, then I see him sticking himself into his own grave along with the toilet paper, the beer and the chicken breasts.”

“where some god pissed a rain of”

“She was still clutching the book. She was holding desperately on to the words who had saved her life.”

“I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.”

“Being dead's a drug', he says, 'you'll get hooked on it.”

“Her constant orders for beheading are shocking to those modern critics of children's literature who feel that juvenile fiction should be free of all violence and especially violence with Freudian undertones. Even the Oz books of L. Frank Baum, so singularly free of the horrors to be found in Grimm and Andersen, contain many scenes of decapitation. As far as I know, there have been no empirical studies of how children react to such scenes and what harm if any is done to their psyche. My guess is that the normal child finds it all very amusing and is not damaged in the least, but that books like”

“I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.”