Charles Bukowski Quotes

I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.

In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.

The people you love are just weapons that will be used against you.

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.

Everybody is vulnerable to being in relationships where they get fooled. I'm no different. It's just human nature.

If you're a woman, it's almost impossible to establish a relationship. You're too much for everybody. It's too much. The woman always has to play this role of being fragile and dependent. And if you're not, they're fascinated by you, but only for a little while. And then they want to change you and crush you. And then they leave.

[Y]ou [man] are fool enough, it seems, to dare to war with [woman=] me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily.

And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.

In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust.

I don’t want your lying kindness. Sure, you’ll smile and be so sweet to me that I’ll trust you, but the minute I don’t give you everything you want the instant you demand it, you’ll turn on me and try to crush me. You’re just like everyone else in the world. No one matters but you. (Aiden)

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

The person who wants out of the relationship always gets her way.

and when he catches me off guard and says 'i love you' i catch him off guard and say 'i need your help.

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she's prepared to be.

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

In love the deceit generally outstrips the distrust.

He took the hat from my mouth. ''Tell me you love me'', he said. Gently I did. The end came anyway

Deceit and lying make me feel vulnerable.

Some men act upon women like champagne; when they appear the women are sparkling and full of brilliance; when they leave the fair ones grow flat, stale, and most unprofitable companions.

He was demanding. He always would be. But sometimes, he was so vulnerable and she realized she had power in the relationship as well. She hadn’t expected that. He was as vulnerable to her as she was to him. He just acted arrogant and bossy, but deep down, where it counted, he didn’t want to lose her either.

Dishonesty makes me feel vulnerable.

We don't want women to really know men, because then they'll find out how much we need them.

Relationships are monuments build on lies

There is no going back to a time when most women will feel compelled to enter or stay in a bad marriage just for economic security or social respectability. So today, the best way to get women once more interested in getting married and having children is for men to accept women's new insistence on equality. This is, I think, why educated women in America, are now more pro - marriage and more disapproving of divorce than other groups of women who have less experience with egalitarian partners or less clout in getting their needs met in relationships.