I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning. 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 rainrunningpeople You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski changeromanticmen The less I needed, the better I felt. Charles Bukowski knobsneededinspirational 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 madalternativesgiving Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn. Charles Bukowski hategivingpeople Find what you love and let it kill you. Charles Bukowski inspirationallovedeath 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 suicidallonelyloneliness Drink from the well of yourself and begin again. Charles Bukowski begin-againdrinkwells The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people. Charles Bukowski boringpeopleworld 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-kindlike-youfaces Are you becoming what you've always hated? Charles Bukowski hatedbecoming I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles. Charles Bukowski blackcoffeehot 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 madessencepeople 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-victoriesdefeatvictory I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was. Charles Bukowski bedmorningremember 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 catforeverpeople 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 drinkingbeerorder 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-havewaitingrose Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. Charles Bukowski crazylifepeople
