Charles Bukowski Quotes About Love

Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them.

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

When love becomes a command, Hatred can become a pleasure.

People don’t need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn’t be.

Love is a word used too much and much too soon.

I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.