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If you’re looking for interesting quotes about drinking look no further than Charles Bukowski. The German-born American writer has some interesting things to share about drinking. Here we decided to share the top drinking quotes by Charles Bukowski according to our research on the interwebs.

1.

“Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It’s like killing yourself, and then you’re reborn. I guess I’ve lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.”

2.

“stay with the beer.

beer is continuous blood.

a continuous lover.”

3.

“‘I think I need a drink.’
‘Almost everybody does only they don’t know it.’”

4.

“Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn’t become obvious yourself.”

5.

“now
lighting new cigarettes
pouring more
drinks

it has been a beautiful
fight

still
is.”

6.

“Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn’t become obvious yourself.”

7.

“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”

8.

“There was nothing really as glorious as a good beer shit—I mean after drinking twenty or twenty-five beers the night before. The odor of a beer shit like that spread all around and stayed for a good hour-and-a-half. It made you realize that you were really alive.”