Charles Bukowski Quotes

I think it's a pretty good day if I can get through it without lifting a finger.

I think the worst thing you can do about a situation is nothing.

I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.

To do nothing is in everyone's power.

I'm just a lazy boy. I'd rather sit in my recliner and act.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I'd rather lie around. No contest.

Of all the cankers of human happiness, none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful a tooth as indolence.

I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

There is nothing harder for me than to sit at the sideline, not being able to be productive.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.

Obviously, there is little you can learn from doing nothing.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.

When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.

You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.

Inaction, contrary to its reputation for being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.

I can't just sit around and do nothing. Although, I can sit on the couch sometimes and just watch movies.

I'm quite lazy.