Charles Bukowski Quotes

We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.

He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

I love seeing the stars, and I love being around my friends and family.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

I'd never had so much pleasure with another human being.

My eyes and spirit have opened up since I found someone that I get to share my life with.

I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

When we got married - almost 10 years ago now - we made a commitment to really be together, which means we hardly ever spend a night apart. And being madly in love is important, but I think it's equally important to be in deep like! I like this guy... we talk about everything, and we laugh a lot. Life is good!

I think it's one of the great enrichments of life, romance.

You find what makes you happy, and it's usually being with the person you want to be with.

How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?

Love means being happy, and it is that magical feeling which you get around people you love. Be it friends, family. It could mean different to different people, but to me, it is just being kind and happy with each other.

It's definitely fun being a part of this family.

Being with somebody who makes you feel great, you could be anywhere doing anything.

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

There is no better taste than this: someone else’s laughter in your mouth.

To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you'll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold only have an incomplete half of it, and that it won't ever really exist as a whole until you're together, talking or thinking about that moment ...that's worth more than one plus one. It's worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can't even imagine it.

I don't think a married couple can go through life without laughs together any more than they can without tears.

Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love.

My parents danced together, her head on his chest. Both had their eyes closed. They seemed so perfectly content. If you can find someone like that, someone who you can hold and close your eyes to the world with, then you're lucky. Even if it only lasts for a minute or a day. The image of them gently swaying to the music is how I picture love in my mind even after all these years.

He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.