Love is a Dog from Hell Quotes

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

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

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgot to get old. ”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“in this land some of us fuck more than
we die but most of us die
better than we fuck”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“the writing of some
men
is like a vast bridge
that carries you
over
the many things
that claw and tear.

The Wine of Forever”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“she is no longer
the beautiful woman
she was. she sends
photos of herself
sitting upon a rock
by the ocean
alone and damned.
I could have had
her once. I wonder
if she thinks I
could have
saved her?”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“and you invented me
and I invented you
and that's why we don't
get along
on this bed
any longer.
you were the world's
greatest invention
until you
flushed me
away.

now it's your turn
to wait for the touch
of the handle.
somebody will do it
to you,
bitch,
and if they don't
you will -
mixed with your own
green or yellow or white
or blue
or lavender
goodbye.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“the history of melancholia
includes all of us.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“I hope that death contains
less than this.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“stay with the beer.

beer is continuous blood.

a continuous lover.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“dont undress my love
you might find a mannequin
dont undress the mannequin
you might find love.
shes long ago forgotten me.
hes trying on a new hat and looks more the coquette then ever.
she is a child and a mannequin and death.
i can't hate that.
she didnt do anything unusual.
I only wanted her to. ”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“this time has finished me.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're
just as crazy as the rest of them.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“I
have a face like a washrag. I sing
love songs and carry steel.

I would rather die than cry. I can't
stand hounds can't live without them.
I hang my head against the white
refrigerator and want to scream like
the last weeping of life forever but
I am bigger than the mountains.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“I was only kidding about the hundred," she says.

oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"

she lights her cigarette with
my lighter and looks at me
through the flame:

her eyes tell me.

look," I say, "I don't think I
can ever pay that price again.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“alone with everybody


the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and them men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but they keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.

there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.

nobody ever finds
the one.

the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill

nothing else
fills.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“but right now
it's Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan Bob
Dylan all the
way.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“sometimes I hate you,"
she said.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“And it seems people should not build houses anymore
it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors
under electric lights
without shades;
it seems there is a lot to forget
and a lot not to do
and in drugstores, markets, bars,
the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night
and look through this house and the house does not want to be built”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“eleven months.

now she's gone
gone as they go.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“the masses are everywhere
they know how to do things:
they have sane and deadly angers
for sane and deadly
things.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“escape from the black widow spider
is a miracle as great as art.
what a web she can weave
slowly drawing you to her
she'll embrace you
then when she's satisfied
she'll kill you
still in her embrace
and suck the blood from you. ”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“if you think they didn't go crazy
in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready. ”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“one day Manuel returned to the place, and
she was gone -
no argument, no note, just
gone, all her clothes
all her stuff, and
Manuel sat by the window and looked out
and didn't make his job
the next day or the
next day or
the day after, he
didn't phone in, he
lost his job, got a
ticket for parking, smoked
four hundred and sixty cigarettes, got
picked up for common drunk, bailed
out, went
to court and pleaded
guilty.

when the rent was up he
moved from Beacon street, he
left the cat and went to live with
his brother and
they'd get drunk
every night
and talk about how
terrible
life was.

Manuel never again smoked
long slim cigars
because Shirley always said
how
handsome he looked
when he did.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“fuck


she pulled her dress off
over her head
and I saw the panties
indented somewhat into the
crotch.

it's only human.
now we've got to do it.
I've got to do it
after all that bluff.
it's like a party--
two trapped
idiots.

under the sheets
after I have snapped
off the light
her panties are still
on. she expects an
opening performance.
I can't blame her. but
wonder why she's here with
me? where are the other
guys? how can you be
lucky? having someone the
others have abandoned?

we didn't have to do it
yet we had to do it.
it was something like
establishing new credibility
with the income tax
man. I get the panties
off. I decide not to tongue her. even then
I'm thinking about
after it's over.

we'll sleep together
tonight
trying to fit ourselves
inside the wallpaper.

I try, fail,
notice the hair on her
head
mostly notice the hair
on her
head
and a glimpse of
nostrils
piglike

I try it again.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“soon I'll finish this 5th of
Puerto Rican rum.
in the morning I'll vomit and
shower, drive back
in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m.,
be back in my room by
2,
stretched on the bed,
waiting for the phone to ring,
not answering,
my holiday is an
evasion, mt reasoning
is not.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“I wish I were driving a blue 1952 Buick
or a dark blue 1942 Buick
or a blue 1932 Buick
over a cliff of hell and into the
sea.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“for a man of 55 who didn't get laid
until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone
until I get as much as the average man has had”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“my 6 foot goddess
makes me laugh
the laughter of the mutilated
who still need
love...

she has saved me
from everything that is
not here”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“one more creature
dizzy with love”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell

“I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...”
― Charles Bukowski, Love is a Dog from Hell