Charles Bukowski Quotes About Cats

Quotes about: Cats

• I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

  Charles Bukowski

  Good Night, Nice, Rain

• Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Real, Cat

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

• In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sleep, Cat, Waiting

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Cats”, p.98, Canongate Books

• The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, People, Forever

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Cats”, p.84, Canongate Books

• Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Writing, Rose

• when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns

  Charles Bukowski

  Courage, Cat, Feelings

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Cats”, p.105, Canongate Books

• Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know.

  Charles Bukowski

  Girl, Jobs, Wall

  Charles Bukowski, “Pull A String, A Puppet Moves”

• That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Thinking, Years

  Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.9, Canongate Books

• and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!" but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?" no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Drunk, Looks

  Charles Bukowski, “The History Of One Tough Motherfucker”

• terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind

  Charles Bukowski

  Cat, Mind, Creeps

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