Charles Bukowski Quotes About People

[about people]You hate them?[Wanda]No, but I seem to feel better when they’s not around.[Henry]

Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Bach, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.

What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until their death.

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn’t so.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or to love.

People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

People are not good to each other. Perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody else’s.

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.