Charles Bukowski

I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#suicide #hope

Without literature, life is hell. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#sentimentality #weep #weeping #love

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#inspirational

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#death

in this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#fuck #death

some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#love #moments #nice #poetry #war-all-the-time

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#space

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#style

the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#love