Sometimes You Win--Sometimes You Learn: Life's Greatest Lessons Are Gained from Our Losses “I always try to remember that I am a work in progress. When I maintain that perspective, I realize that I don’t

“if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.” ― Charles Bukowski

“there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy” ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.” ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.” ― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.” ― Charles Bukowski

“Animals are inspirational. They don’t know how to lie. They are natural forces.” ― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“she is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I could have had her once. I wonder if she thinks I could have saved her?”

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.” ― Charles Bukowski

'Aronson's first law:People who do crazy things are not necessarily crazy.' — Elliot Aronson

“Find what you love and let it kill you.” ― Charles Bukowski

“there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late” ― Charles Bukowski

“My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.

“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ― Charles Bukowski

“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” ― Charles Bukowski

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.” ― Charles Bukowski

we had goldfish and they circled around and around in the bowl on the table near the heavy drapes covering the picture window and my mother, always smiling, wanting us all to be happy, told me, 'be happy

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.” ― Charles Bukowski