Charles Bukowski Loneliness Quotations

I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude...

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.