Charles Bukowski: Zitate auf Englisch
Charles Bukowski war US-amerikanischer Dichter und Schriftsteller. Zitate auf Englisch.“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
Charles Bukowski buch The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Quelle: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Charles Bukowski buch Love Is a Dog from Hell
Variante: There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Quelle: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
Charles Bukowski buch Factotum
Quelle: Factotum (1975), Ch. 31
“Lighting new cigarettes,
pouring more
drinks.
It has been a beautiful
fight.
Still
is.”
Quelle: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“I want so much that is not here and do not know
where to go.”
Quelle: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.”
Charles Bukowski buch Love Is a Dog from Hell
Quelle: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”
Quelle: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.”
Quelle: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Charles Bukowski buch Factotum
Quelle: Factotum (1975), Ch. 73
Kontext: There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i. e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.
“It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.”
Quelle: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Variante: The best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them.