Charles Bukowski Quotes

Anytime I fall in love, I feel it's a first time. I have had no successful love story yet. I hope I will succeed next time when I fall in love.

I do think it's possible to go through life and never fall in love, or find someone who loves you.

Love is one of my favorite things to talk about. Every song will be about losing it or finding it, seeing a guy and not knowing if you want to tell him how you feel yet. I guess I'm a hopeless romantic.

There hasn't been a great romance in my life.

And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me. And then I would remember I had a wife at home who loved me, or later that my wife had left me and I was terrirfied, or again later that I had a beautiful alcoholic girlfriend who would make me happy forever. But every time I entered the place there were veiled faces promising everything and then clarifying quickly into the dull, the usual, looking up at me and making the same mistake.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.

My first love, I'll never forget, and it's such a big part of who I am, and in so many ways, we could never be together, but that doesn't mean that it's not forever. Because it is forever.

My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.

Love doesn't last.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

I think I'll always be a hopeless romantic.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

'Heartbreak Heard Around the World' is about me and my girl, and I'm just going through a broken-heart stage in a relationship, and I'm just kind of expressing my love for her.

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

I always had a penchant for falling in love. Every time I found myself without a mate, I fell into a state of low-sizzling panic.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.