“My beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.”
― Charles Bukowski
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Bukowski Quotes on Drinking
Words of wisdom from the man himself, Charles Bukowski, one of the 20th century’s best-known American writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. And not to mention one hell of a wino!
Bukowski Quotes on Drinking Thanksgiving Entry
Standard“Thanksgivi
ng. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of clans: loud drunks, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, screaming children, would-be suicides. And don’t forget indigestion. I wasn’t different from anyone else: there sat the 18 pound bird on my sink, dead, plucked, totally disemboweled. Iris would roast it for me.”
– Charles Bukowski
Bukowski Quotes on Drinking Entry #7
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“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”
– Charles Bukowski, Factotum
BUKOWSKI QUOTES ON DRINKING: ENTRY #6
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“I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he’ll never die; especially wine or beer…I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they’re sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth…If I hadn’t been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.”
– Charles Bukowski, The Charles Bukowski Tapes
Bukowski Quotes on Drinking: Entry #5
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“in the cupboard sits my bottle
like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers.
I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony,
sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere,
the phone rings gamboling its sound
against the odds of the crooked sea;
I drink deeply and evenly now,
I drink to paradise
and death
and the lie of love.”
—Charles Bukowski, “Soirée”
Bukowski Quotes on Drinking: Entry #4
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“Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn’t become obvious yourself.”
—Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
Bukowski Quotes on Drinking: Entry #3
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“I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn’t dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren’t thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.”
—Charles Bukowski, Women
Bukowski Quotes on Drinking: Entry #2
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“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It’s like killing yourself, and then you’re reborn. I guess I’ve lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”
—Charles Bukowski
Bukowski Quotes on Drinking: Entry #1
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“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 happens you drink to make something happen.”
—Charles Bukowski, Women
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