Charles Bukowski Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

  Charles Bukowski

  Girl, Dream, Nightmare

• when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Lying, Boys

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Continual Condition: Poems”, p.4, Harper Collins

• we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Leopards

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.60, Canongate Books

• 2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Horse, Beer

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame”, p.26, Harper Collins

• Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dream, Self, Snakes

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.19, Harper Collins

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