Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto. Charles Bukowski More Quotes by Charles Bukowski More Quotes From Charles Bukowski people run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water. Charles Bukowski rain running people You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski change romantic men The less I needed, the better I felt. Charles Bukowski knobs needed inspirational The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative. Charles Bukowski mad alternatives giving Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn. Charles Bukowski hate giving people Find what you love and let it kill you. Charles Bukowski inspirational love death Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody. Charles Bukowski dangerous I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. Charles Bukowski suicidal lonely loneliness Drink from the well of yourself and begin again. Charles Bukowski begin-again drink wells The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people. Charles Bukowski boring people world Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped. Charles Bukowski be-kind like-you faces Are you becoming what you've always hated? Charles Bukowski hated becoming I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles. Charles Bukowski black coffee hot This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful. Charles Bukowski mad essence people I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here. Charles Bukowski small-victories defeat victory I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was. Charles Bukowski bed morning remember The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. Charles Bukowski cat forever people 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. Charles Bukowski drinking beer order We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting Charles Bukowski should-have waiting rose Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. Charles Bukowski crazy life people