Charles Bukowski Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• 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.

• they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Solitude, Earth

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “New Poems Book Three”, p.65, Random House

• 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

• beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Love Is, Men

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.149, Canongate Books

• 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

  Pride, Darkness, Solitude

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

• Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Solitude, Needs

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

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin