Charles Bukowski Quotes About Madness

Quotes about: Madness

• Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ordinary World, Soul, Dimensions

• Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

  Charles Bukowski

  Motivational, Suicide, Time

  Charles Bukowski, “So You Want To Be A Writer?”

• Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

  Charles Bukowski

  Life, Crazy, People

• People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mean, People, Interesting

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

• I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mad, Rich Poor, Poverty

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.307, Canongate Books

• you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Winter, Cities

• t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

  Charles Bukowski

  Stress, Madness, Daily Life

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

• why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)

  Charles Bukowski

  Stupid, Night, Two

  Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”

• And if there is anybody out there who is crazy enough to want to become a writer, I'd say go ahead, spit in the eye of the sun, hit those keys, it's the best madness going, the centuries need help, the species cry for light and gamble and laughter. Give it to them. There are enough words for all of us.

  Charles Bukowski

  Laughter, Crazy, Eye

• Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

  Charles Bukowski

  Ejaculation, Ordinary, Exhibitions

  1972 Title of book.

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