Quotes I've Fallen in Love with

Charles Bukowski Quotes Pt. 2

"She's mad but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire."

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live."

"Have you ever been in love? Love is for real people."

"Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are."

"How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you met them? But you'll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize the love is just the result of a chance encounter."

"People empty me. I have to get away to refill."

"There was so much sadness in everything, even when things worked."

"nobody ever finds
the one.

the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill

nothing else fills."- alone with everybody exerpt

"I take much pleasure in being alone, but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone."

"Too often, the only escape is sleep."

"I want so much that is not here and I don't know where to go."

"Some lose all mind and become soul;
insane.
Some lose all soul and become mind;
intellectual.
Some lose both and become accepted."

"I have gotten so used to
melancholia
that
I greet it like an old friend." - Melancholia

"He asked, 'What makes a man a writer?' 'Well,' I said, 'it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge'."

"it's not the large things that
send a man to the
madhouse. death he's ready for, or
murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood...
no, it's the continuing series of small
tragedies
that send a man to the
madhouse...
not the death of his love
but a shoelace that snaps
with no time left." - The Shoelace

"The best advice I've ever received: 'no one else knows what they're doing either.'"

"...Love breaks my
bones and I
laugh." - Fingernails; Nostrils; Shoelaces