Charles Bukowski Quotes

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

When I'm in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I'm holding her.

You don't know what you're going to fall in love with until you're exposed to it.

I was in love with the idea of being in love with a woman way before I was actually in love with one.

I have been driven by romance my whole life because I crave the intimacy that comes with that.

I think in general, people are baffled by love and what it does to them and how far they'll go to have love and be loved.

I liked just being with you. I liked the way you breathed when you were asleep. I liked when you took the champagne glass from my hand. I liked how your fingers were always too long for your gloves.

He let his mouth linger on mine, neither possessively nor sweetly... like his mouth just belonged there on mine. And he was right. It did. It always had.

I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?

I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

Love is friendship set on fire.

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

When it's a love scene with someone you actually love, there's no feeling like, 'Can I touch him here? Can I touch him there?' You know what your boundaries are - or what they aren't, I suppose.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

Two people can make love but that isn't necessarily love.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

I never realized I could love people as much as I do now.

All mankind love a lover.

There's nothing more human than two people making love.

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.