I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
Charles BukowskiRead
I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.
Interpretation
This quote expresses a desire for simple pleasures and a preference to avoid negativity.
In this quote, Charles Bukowski highlights the need for personal space and comfort, specifically seeking solace in a simple cup of black coffee while simultaneously rejecting external burdens, particularly the troubles of others. It serves as a humorous reminder that sometimes we just want to enjoy small, uncomplicated joys without being weighed down by the woes that others wish to share.
In practice
This quote can be used in a social media post about enjoying quiet moments.
I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns
The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.
Comedians are sociologists. We're pointing out stuff that the general public doesn't even stop to think about, looking at life in slow-motion and questioning everything we see.
What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
They do what they do for money - that's all. I don't even know why you're listening to me. I've done commercials for both Coke and Pepsi. Truth is, I can't even taste the difference, but Pepsi paid me last, so there it is.
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.
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