Inspirational Quotes by Charles Bukowski (American Writer)

Charles Bukowski (1920–94,) fully Henry Charles Bukowski, Jr., was an American author. His poetry and fiction are noted for intense images and graphic language that portray survival in a corrupt, blighted society.

Born in Andernach, Germany, to an American father and a German mother, Bukowski lived in Los Angeles. He briefly attended Los Angeles City College (1939–41) before dropping out when World War II started. He worked at menial jobs while writing short stories, the first of which were published in the mid-1940s. He abandoned writing for ten years and traveled across the U.S. as an impoverished, alcoholic drifter. In 1955, he reverted to Los Angeles and started publishing poetry.

Bukowski wrote more than 45 books of poetry and prose, including It Catches My Heart in Its Hands (1963,) Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969,) Post Office (1971,) Love Is a Dog from Hell (1977,) Ham on Rye (1982,) and The Last Night of the Earth Poems (1992.)

Posthumous poetry collections include Slouching Toward Nirvana (2005) and The People Look Like Flowers At Last (2007.) The novel Pulp (1994) was also published posthumously.

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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
—Charles Bukowski
Topics: Genius

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.
—Charles Bukowski

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
—Charles Bukowski
Topics: God

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.
—Charles Bukowski

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
—Charles Bukowski

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
—Charles Bukowski

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
—Charles Bukowski

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
—Charles Bukowski

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
—Charles Bukowski
Topics: Spirituality

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn’t so.
—Charles Bukowski

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.
—Charles Bukowski
Topics: Friendship, Friends, Sharing

Inspirational Quotes by Charles Bukowski (American Writer)

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