Charles Bukowski: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 2)

“I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're
just as crazy as the rest of them.”

“I am too sick to lay down
the sidewalks frighten me
the whole damned city frightens me,
what I will become
what I have become
frightens me.”

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”

“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.”

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”

“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel hate or love.”

“There is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy.”

“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”

“my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?"

and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the
saddest smile I ever saw”

“I will always carry you, inside, outside, on my fingertips, and at brain edges.”

“Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.”

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”

“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.”

“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”

“Life's as kind as you let it be.”

“she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”

“Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their
lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.”