Absence of the Hero Quotes

“We’ve each given the hours of our lives in dull rote jobs for other men’s profit, and have been asked to be grateful for doing that.”
― Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992

“Why does a man destroy himself or what destroys him? I would have to judge that suicide is mostly the tool of the thinking man. The right to suicide should be the same as the right to love.”
― Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992

“If you went to a shrink, he just read to you from the book but when you looked at him, you knew he didn’t know what you were talking about. You were just talking to a contented person. When what you really needed when you were going crazy was another crazy who read exactly what you were saying, but not from the book, from the street.”
― Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992

“Con la gente, solo encontré a los vivos que ahora estaban muertos; en los libros, en la música clásica.”
― Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992

“Me resulta difícil encontrar un héroe a estas alturas, así que tengo que crear mi propio héroe: yo mismo.”
― Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992

“The total ugliness and indifference of the worst features of the human race come out in their driving habits.”
― Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992

“La humanidad tiene múltiples debilidades, pero dos de las más importantes son: la incapacidad de llegar a tiempo y la ineptitud a la hora de cumplir promesas.”
― Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992

“Uno se puede encariñar de muchas cosas aparte del sexo pero es mejor si el sexo está presente de alguna manera.”
― Charles Bukowski, Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Volume 2 : 1946-1992