charles bukowski

“ And if you have the ability to love, love yourself first. ”

“ Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. ”

“ There is the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space. ”

“ Beauty is nothing; beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it's for something else. ”

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

“ Pain arrives, Bang, and there it is, it sits on you...there's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel and knows how to help. ”

“ Baby.'I said, 'I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.' ”

“ I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of. ”

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

“ We are 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. ”