Charles Bukowski Quotes

What do any of us really know about love?

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.

There are many doors to the heart.

Don't know much, but I know I love you.

Love wasn't a happening one decided on---to indulge or not, to partake or not. To feel or not. When it came, when it struck, the only decision left to make was how to respond---whether you embraced it, took it in, and made it a part of you, or whether you turned your back and let it die.

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

Every love story needs a catalyst of some sort.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I think everybody wants love, and everybody wants to feel alive.

My biggest lesson I've learned about love is to keep on loving. Love is love; it's amazing. It's fine. It hurts. It's probably one of the best experiences in life.

Love is a state of being.

You know, I believe in love.

I write songs about love because, above all, love is the most human thing we have together. Feelings are a part of us every day. You feel things every day, no matter where you are. So that's what I write about.

You never know when you actually fall in love.

Anyone can fall in love.

Nothing is more important to me than love.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

One of the most frustrating words in the human language, as far as I could tell, was love. So much meaning attached to this one little word. People bandied it about freely, using it to describe their attachments to possessions, pets, vacation destinations, and favorite foods. In the same breath they then applied this word to the person they considered most important in their lives. Wasn’t that insulting? Shouldn’t there be some other term to describe deeper emotion?

Every romance does not lead to sex.

Love does not to be understood. It needs only to be shown.

There are no rules when it comes to love. I just try to let love surprise me because you never know who you’re going to fall in love with. You never know who’s going to come into your life - and for me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

There is nothing like love. You should try it.” Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.

Lovers are made by a kiss.

Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.