The best Quotes by Charles Bukowski

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

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.

Small Things Daily Routine

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Life Risk Beginning

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Foolishness Intelligence Self-Confidence Doubt

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Craziness & Weirdness

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.

Self-Deception Bed

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Love Breakup

"Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around."

Barfly

Humanity

My ambition is handicapped by laziness.

Factotum

Laziness Ambition

'That's the problem with drinking', I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Women

Alcohol

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.

Morning

Education also seemed to be a trap. The little education I had allowed myself had made me more suspicious. What were doctors, lawyers, and scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals.

Ham on Rye

Education

It's necassary for me sometimes just to be alone and quiet and doing nothing.

Recovery & Leisure

'Baby,' I said, 'I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.'

Factotum

Genius

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Art

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Humanity Genius

This is presented as a work of fiction and dedicated to nobody.

Post Office

Book Dedications & Preambles

She was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty.

The People Look Like Flowers at Last

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Factotum

Hope

Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.

Factotum

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Millionaires

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

Writing

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Friendship Loyalty

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.

Puns

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That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

Sebastian Wilder in La La Land

Los Angeles

Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.

Joe Goldberg in You - Season 2 Episode 2

Los Angeles

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Humanity Breakup Grief & Condolence

Since when was genius found respectable?

Elizabeth Browning

Genius

You mean well, but leave me be
Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free

Elsa in Frozen -

Solitude & Loneliness Introvertierte Sprüche

Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.

Ar-Pharazôn in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 4

Politics Small Things

"You see, Momo," he told her one day, "it's like this: Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept."
He gazed silently into space before continuing.
"And then you start to hurry," he went on. "You work faster and faster, and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop - and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it."

He pondered a while. Then he said, "You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else."
Again he paused for thought before adding, "That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be."

Michael Ende in Momo

Daily Routine

Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Life Pain Hurting Falling down

Well you can't never let anything happen to him. Then nothing would ever happen to him!

Dory in Finding Nemo

Life Risk Safety

In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.

Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4

Beginning

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Foolishness

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

Being different isn't a bad thing. It means you're brave enough to be yourself.

Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Character Self-Confidence

That's the misery: Stupid people are so confident, the wise ones full of doubt.

Helmut Schmidt

Foolishness Intelligence Doubt

There are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

Graham Chapman

Reason & Sanity Craziness & Weirdness

Stop pitying yourself. Pity yourself, and life becomes an endless nightmare.

Osamu Dazai in Bungo Stray Dogs - Season 2 Episode 7

Self-Deception

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