#- Charles Bukowski

[perfectquote]

I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.

Charles Bukowski

[thoughtkick]

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, Women

[thehopefulquotes]

but we joke and laugh otherwise we would start screaming.

Charles Bukowski

[perfectfeelings]

I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?

Charles Bukowski, Pulp

[nightlyquotes]

I want to be with you, it is as simple, and as complicated as that.

Charles Bukowski

[ragazzoarcano]

“A volte hai solo bisogno che qualcuno ti dica che non sei così terribile come pensi.”

— Charles Bukowski

[belamercado]

I had no interests. I had no interests in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn't let me.

- Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

[tamsoj]

Charles Bukowski, "hurry slowly," from Come On In!

[fromdarzaitoleeza]

{Words by Charles Bukowski/ Mary Oliver from invitation}

[metamorphesque]

fyodor dostoevsky (the brothers karamazov), charles bukowski (a vote for the gentle light)

[thoughtkick]

I want to be with you, it is as simple, and as complicated as that.

Charles Bukowski

[fairydrowning]

"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."

– Charles Bukowski

[thehopefulquotes]

Too often, the only escape is sleep.

Charles Bukowski

[xxrrisxx]

When nobody wakes you up in the morning, when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want, what do you call it, Freedom or Loneliness?

Charles Bukowski

[lelif]

the miracle of being here

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