Charles Bukowski Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

  Charles Bukowski

  Father, Earth, Mets

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.27, Harper Collins

• It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and my father had a dong that shot juice. How could they have things like that and walk around as if everything was normal, and talk about things, and then do it and not tell anybody?

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, Father, Believe

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.51, Canongate Books

• little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little room filled with little mice who gnaw and dance and run while I sleep waiting for a little death in the middle of a little morning in a little city in a little state my little mother dead my little father dead in a little cemetery somewhere. I have only a little time to tell you this: watch out for little death when he comes running but like all the billions of little deaths it will finally mean nothing and everything: all your little tears burning like the dove, wasted.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, Running, Dog

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.308, Zondervan

• I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mother, Father, School

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.83, Canongate Books

• Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.

  Charles Bukowski

  Father, Luck, Would Be

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