Bukowski

“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” - Charles Bukowski

“Beware those who seek constant crowds, for they are nothing alone.” - Bukowski, The Genius Of The Crowd

“If I had been born a woman I would certainly have been a prostitute. Since I had been born a man, I craved women constantly, the lower the better. Good women frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price. Either way I was lost. A strong man would give up both. I wasn’t strong.” - Charles Bukowski, Women

“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.” - Charles Bukowski

“Being together is the miracle, being together and caring. Sleeping together, feet touching, legs touching. Being asleep and together.” - Charles Bukowski

“I considered suicide, but I felt a strange fondness for my body, my life. Scarred as they were, they were mine.” - Charles Bukowski

“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.” - Charles Bukowski

“If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose” - Charles Bukowski

“I want so much that is not here and I do not know where to go.” - Charles Bukowski

“Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It’s just a little while, and then it burns away… Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.” - Charles Bukowski

“It is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and presence matches yours at that moment.” - Charles Bukowski, Once in a while

“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.” - Charles Bukowski

“some people never go crazy. what truly horrible lives they must lead.” - Charles Bukowski

“I want so much that is not here and I do not know where to go.” - Charles Bukowski

“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.” - Charles Bukowski

“Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.” - Charles Bukowski, Pulp

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.” - Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last