Charles Bukowski Lone Quotations

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

Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right." "Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men.

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

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

God is a lonely place without steak.

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

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

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.

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

I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

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...

You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.