11 Profound Quotes By Charles Bukowski On LIfe, Soul and Pain

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


2.  “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


3.  “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
― Charles Bukowski


4.  “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


5.  “You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski


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


7.  “An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski


8.  “Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
― Charles Bukowski


9.  “Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.”
― Charles Bukowski


10.  “You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Charles Bukowski


11.  “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