Quotes & Sayings About Happiness Bukowski

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, bet you can't type that. — Shaquille O'Neal

What about the truth?" Ethan asked. "In some environments, safety and truth are natural born enemies. I would think a former employee of the federal government could grasp that concept." Ethan — Blake Crouch

Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness. — Charles Bukowski

I'm tired of looking for something that will never be there. I've looked for it on the edge of a blade and at the bottom of a bottle. It's not there. It's just ... gone. — Kathryn Perez

She slammed the door and
was gone.
I looked at the closed door
and at the doorknob
and strangely
I didn't feel
alone. — Charles Bukowski

be it peace or happiness
let it enfold you — Charles Bukowski

He fought because it was considered the 'thing to do,' because he liked the people he had to live with, and because those people wouldn't have a good opinion of him if he didn't fight. People never needed much of a philosophic motive to make them do the socially approved things. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

It seemed to me that I had never met
another person on earth
as discouraging to my happiness
as my father.
and it appeared that I had
the same effect upon
him. — Charles Bukowski

You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't. — Michael Moore

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is. — Charles Bukowski

We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain. — Charles Bukowski

Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt. — Harley King

This over-consumption is also manifest in our use of raw materials. It can even be found in our dietary habits ... People are well aware of this. The root of the problem lies in a selfish world view which inflates personal consumption beyond the essential. — Yehuda Levi

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb. — Bob Dylan

Painting completed my life. — Frida Kahlo

As we come into balance within ourselves and the all that is, we balance the past, future and our Earth. — Jan Porter

The pleasures of the damned
are limited to brief moments
of happiness:
like eyes in the look of a dog,
like a square of wax,
like a fire taking city hall,
the county,
the continent,
like fire taking the hair
of maidens and monsters;
and hawks buzzing in peach trees,
the sea running between their claws,
Time
drunk and damp,
everything burning,
everything wet,
everything fine. — Charles Bukowski

And our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense
and are not easy to fool with laughter — Charles Bukowski

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work. — Casey Stengel

(the whole world is at the
throat of the world,
everybody feels angry,
short-changed, cheated,
everybody is despondent,
disillusioned.)
I welcomed shots of
peace, tattered shards of
happiness. — Charles Bukowski

My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in. — Rufus Wainwright

Naturally, we are all caught in
downmoods, it's a matter of
chemical imbalance
and an existence
which, at times,
seems to forbid
any real chance at
happiness. — Charles Bukowski