Charles Bukowski Soul Quotations

the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

You have my soul and I have your money

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.

I have no time for things that have no soul.

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it

A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.