Charles Bukowski Quotes

You have to give love to get love.

The love received is the love that is saved.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

He who gives love, receives love.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

One must not trifle with love.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

I never fall in love.

If you sit in a room and think you're the only one that needs to be loved, then you have a big problem. If you are needy, you have to give the same as you need. If I need love, I have to give love. But that's just a personal thing.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

There is very little love in this world, and if you give love, you will get it back.

How many times could you give up on someone you loved?

I think I'm really lucky that the things I'm able to love - people, animals - it's like the more you put yourself into it, the more you get out of it.

With gifts, you may gather your enemies about you. When giving nothing, even your own family will leave.

Don't give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.

The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.

There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.

My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world.

And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you love might do.

As I love Mannheim, Mannheim loves me.

Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.