Charles Bukowski Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.

  Charles Bukowski

  Animal, Owning A Pet, Worry

• Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Crazy, Mean

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

• After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Baby, Art, Jobs

  Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, Harper Collins

• You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get up face it get it before it gets you the whole process is more shy than vulnerable so lay down and wait sometimes it's ten minutes sometimes it's years sometimes it never arrives but you can't rush it push it there's no way to cheat or get a jump on it you have to lay down lay down and wait like an animal .

  Charles Bukowski

  Animal, Waiting, Lays

  "The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993".

• Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

  Charles Bukowski

  Animal, Talking, Soul

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

• People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Animal, People, Interesting

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.178, Canongate Books

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