Charles Bukowski Quotes

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

I've never had my heart broken.

But I had loved him. A part of me still did. Maybe more than a part of me, because I'm a complete moron.

The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.

I was angry with myself because I still loved her, or at least I loved that dream of our togetherness. My feelings were unreasonable, irrational, and I couldn't change them. That hurt.

How sad. How frightening. To be filled with so much hate that you could not even rejoice in the healing of a child...How did anyone ever come to that point?

Only love of a good woman will make a man question every choice, every action. Only love makes a warrior hesitate for fear that his lady will find him cruel. Only love makes a man both the best he will ever be, and the weakest. Sometimes all in the same moment. -Wicked

And there, in that phrase, the bitterness leaks again out of my pen. What a dull lifeless quality this bitterness is. If I could I would write with love, but if I could write with love I would be another man; I would never have lost love.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

Hate is all that keeps us alive when love is gone. You’re almost there. Not quite ready to let it go yet.

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with.

There is the theory... that you live in two places: You either live in fear, or you live in love.

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

Love hurts more than hate.

We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.

There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If you've never said anything, there are no sound bites to haunt you when you're crying into a box of Kleenex after it all goes wrong.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

We are built to love. Have the bravery to open the heart you have contracted from life's disappointments. This is how the heroes roll.

I didn't think I was doing anything bad by falling in love.