Charles Bukowski Quotes

I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.

I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

All these cities I go to, I never see them. They may be the most beautiful places in the world, but I'll just usually go to the nearest bar. I need a couple of hours by myself.

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

There is one big misunderstanding of the monastics leaving society.

Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.

I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

People who are isolated interest me, whether they isolate themselves or have been isolated by circumstances.

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

I hardly even leave my own house.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

I enjoy living like a hermit, but I cannot live like a hermit.

If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.