“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
“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.”
— Charles Bukowski
“People are not good to each other. Perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.”
— Charles Bukowski
“And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.”
— Charles Bukowski
“Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.”
— Charles Bukowski
“My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”
— 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
“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”
— Charles Bukowski
“I disliked weekends. Everybody was out on the streets. Everybody was playing Ping-Pong or mowing their lawn or polishing their car or going to the supermarket or the beach or to the park. Crowds everywhere. Monday was my favorite day. Everybody was back on the job and out of sight.”
— Charles Bukowski