Charles Bukowski Quotes

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.

The only thing I'm looking for in life is incredible passion and honest love, no matter what options are on the table. All I really operate on is the way I feel in my heart when it comes to love.

To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

We don't need to have somebody that's gonna make sure they pay for our market bills. It's like we have only one reason to love and that is for the real idea of love.

There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.

I just want to love and be loved.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

I know the difference between true love and the love of my fans.

I think if you pick someone that you love, you will continuously fall in love with them.

It's love. It's two men - two strong, very virile men - finding that space in life where they can let go enough of their masculinity to feel the passion of love and respect and trust. Friendships are based on those things, and you seal it with a kiss.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

Quen kind of taught me what love is and what love should feel like and be like.

I've never believed in or understood romantic love. Love at first sight was always a complete joke to me.

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

Some loves come unbidden like winds from the sea, and others grow from the seeds of friendship.

Gather up In the arms of your love—Those who expect No love from above.

You can love somebody without it being like that. You keep them a stranger, a stranger who's a friend.

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'