Charles Bukowski Quotes

I have been taken for a ride a couple of times. I've been hurt by people who I've had a 90 percent possibility of being hurt by.

You can't trust very many people.

I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy.

What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

But do you ever think of me, when you lie? Lie down in your bed, your bed of lies.

If I couldn't trust her, I couldn't trust anyone.

The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters

Smoke You stand infront of me, pretending to be solid, but you are nothing more than smoke and mirors. You said you'd never leave, that you would care for us forever, but now you claim you cannot stay? That you've been called away. When you go, who will i turn to when it all crashes down? Tell me who. Then tell me, how I can believe anone again, if all your promises have been lies.

Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.

There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

I work in a strange business, and 'trust' is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.

I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you were about someone.

The betrayal of trust carries a heavy taboo.

If a woman is dishonest, that kills it for me. I can't even talk to her anymore.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

There's nobody to believe in anymore, nobody to trust.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

Sometimes you don't know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.

If somebody says they are going to do something - and then later they don't - it affects me a lot, and I lose confidence in them.

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.