Charles Bukowski Quotes About Drinking

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.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.

There was nothing glorious about the life of a writer or the life of a drinker.

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.

If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.

But it does seem the more we drink the better the words go.

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance.