Dusan Milovanovic > Dusan's Quotes

“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.

good human beings save the world
so that bastards like me can keep creating art,
become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead
it means I made it.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“the history of melancholia
includes all of us.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.”
― Charles Bukowski

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Freidrich Neitzsche

“I do not refute ideals, I merely put on gloves when I deal with them...”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Why I Am So Wise

“What's a fuck when what I want is love?”
― Henry Miller

“I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit.”
― Henry Miller, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller, 1932-1953

“jan was an excellent fuck...she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.”
― Henry Miller

“Fuck! Is one expected to be a gentleman when one is stiff?”
― Marquis De Sade

“What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.”
― Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir

“There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Marriage as a long conversation. - When marrying you should ask yourself this question: do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman into your old age? Everything else in a marriage is transitory, but most of the time that you're together will be devoted to conversation.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”
― Marquis de Sade

“The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.”
― Marquis de Sade

“I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.”
― Doug Wright, Quills