Charles Bukowski Quotes About Loneliness

Quotes about: Loneliness

• I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Loneliness, Pride, Men

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 17, 1975.

• Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

  Charles Bukowski

  Real, Loneliness

• there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

  Charles Bukowski

  Loneliness, Hands, Movement

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.222, Canongate Books

• I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

  Charles Bukowski

  Lonely, Loneliness, Suicidal

• I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!

  Charles Bukowski

  Lonely, Loneliness, Wine

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

• she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

  Charles Bukowski

  Loneliness, Simple, Despair

• I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.

  Charles Bukowski

  Loneliness, Drinking, Bars

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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