Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Charles Bukowski (American Writer)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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