TOP 10 Charles Bukowski quotes

10

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

9

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

8

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

7

I'm going, she said. I love you but you'recrazy, you're doomed.

6

Those who preach god, need god. Those who preach peace do not have peace. Those who preach love do not have love

5

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

4

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.

3

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

2

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.

1

...and you go on toward your ocean, the cigar biting your lips the way love used to.