Top 66 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

About Charles Bukowski

These are some quotes by American author Charles Bukowski Author, who lived between August 16, 1920 and March 9, 1994.

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

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

Charles Bukowski

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds.

Charles Bukowski

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Charles Bukowski

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Charles Bukowski

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Charles Bukowski

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.

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.

Charles Bukowski

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Charles Bukowski

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