The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
Find what you love and let it kill you.
I wanted the whole world or nothing.
We are all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesnt.
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
A wine shop is like a good friend, it always has your back.
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start.
I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they’re not around.
You know you’re not liked when you get handed the check.
Its better to have a life of oh wells than a life of what ifs.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
I often carry flowers to be able to put them on my own grave.
Dont try.
If youre going to be crazy, be crazy all the way.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Things get bad for the people who cant imagine.
The less I needed, the better I felt.
Theres nothing worse than having to make a living.
Its not about the fame, its about the craft.
A good friend is a fellow who tells you what you dont want to hear.
Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
Im not sure how you feel about some things, but when youre dead, youre dead.
To be a poet is to be a soul in a body.
We are all two people: who we are and who we want to be.
Your life is a joke, you might as well laugh.
Writing about a writers block is better than not writing at all.
People are strange; they think they are invincible.
To find meaning, you must travel the road less traveled.
Love is a dog from hell.
Were all just one bad day away from being a character in a Bukowski story.
Life is a struggle, but thats what makes it interesting.
Money may not buy happiness, but it can buy booze.
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
Beauty is nothing but the promise of happiness.
I want more. And I want it deeply.
Poetry is the last refuge of the exhausted.
The most important thing for me is not to get up in the mornings.
Cynicism is what you create when disappointment becomes a habit.
Nothing makes sense, and thats what makes life beautiful.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.
You don’t have to be a genius to be a poet. You just have to feel deeply.
I am a man of a thousand faces and none.
Every man dies, but not every man lives.
Sometimes you need to laugh before you can cry.