Charles Bukowski: Zitate auf Englisch

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence.”

“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.”

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them… I just feel better when they're not around.”

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”

“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”

“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”

“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”

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

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”

“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”

“Love breaks my
bones and I
laugh”

“I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.”

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.”

“I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.”

“people run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.”

“one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid”