Henry Charles Bukowski (August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer.
His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.
His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work.
Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels (Post Office, Factotum,Women,Ham on Rye,Hollywood, Pulp)
Read below Quotes of Charles Bukowski.
What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.
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.
My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they aren’t around.
If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn’t know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
