Charles Bukowski Quotes

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

There is only so much that you can kick the can down the road.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much later, or possibly never.

If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.

If I don't get you now, I'll get you later.

I do laundry, but my bags from the last race will sit there until the very last minute that I have to do laundry again.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

I'm not looking at anything now. I'll look at it at the time. What I have seen, what I've seen is so bad.

Do not call procrastination laziness. Call it fear.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.

Postponement: The father of failure.

With ills unending strives the putter off.

Later is always my first choice.

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to postpone the inevitable.

The less you want to do about something, the more you have to talk about it

Procrastinate now, don't put it off.

To delay action until there Is one hundred percent certainty Is always to postpone political action forever.

Hesitation is often like procrastination. One may have vague doubts and feel a need to mull things over; meanwhile, other issues intrude on thought, and no decision is taken. Ask people why they procrastinate, and you probably won't get a crisp answer.

I've kind of done everything late.

Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.

Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.