James O'Barr Quotes & Sayings

I know why Jesus wept, motherfucker. — James O'Barr

Shouldn't have looked, boy... — James O'Barr

Life is lousy with hurt but it also shimmers with beauty. — James O'Barr

Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles long
Coiled, one thousand miles deep
Eyes like candy, it has eyes like candy
Hard and blue, but soft as kittens feet
Out of sight or in the element of light
It could be a devil, it could be an angel
With spiders inside a vision from hell
Its spine is a vertical scream
Slow as concrete, blurred as a dream
Fueled by inertia, depth, radius, and velocity,
Its soul
a twisted wreckage of despair and pain
And the spiders inside are just praying for rain
Killing time killing time
And praying for rain
One thousand miles deep — James O'Barr

Sometimes I dream of sleepiness,
sometimes I feel like I'm alive. — James O'Barr

Childhood is over when you know you're gonna die. — James O'Barr

When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I've allies in heaven, Jack, i've commrades in hell ... say hello for me ... — James O'Barr

Remember when you said "Mine?" and I said "Forever". You said "Only forver?" It's forever, now. — James O'Barr

Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets. — James O'Barr

Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you.
The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me. — James O'Barr

People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right. — James O'Barr

It's not death if you refuse it ... It is if you accept it. — James O'Barr

There are no boundries between good and evil where love is concerned. — James O'Barr

...the girl.. her name was Shelly... — James O'Barr

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm ... — James O'Barr

Life is just a dream on the way to death. — James O'Barr

So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream. — James O'Barr

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of all children. Do you understand? Do you understand? — James O'Barr

He hears men's voices, shouts, so evil and grim he hears their names: Tin Tin, Fun Boy, T-Bird, Top Dollar and Tom Tom. The sounds sink into his heart like ice and brun in his head with a heat so intense it glows white. — James O'Barr

Tonight, hell sends an angel bearing gifts... — James O'Barr

Death, like virtue, has its degrees. — James O'Barr

Nothing is trivial. — James O'Barr

Hey gunslinger... nice shot. — James O'Barr

ANODYNE
If I were an Angel I would cast away my wings and halo, forever
Just to spend one more moment near you,
To touch the soft white milk of your skin,
To count every freckle on your nose,
To feel the silky smooth drift of your hair over my face,
To feel your breath hot on my mouth.
I would forget the music of every sunrise
To just once more hear you sigh,
I would laugh in absolute joy at the irony
Of the angel who gave away his divinity, for all eternity,
To fell the warm glow of an earth-bound love,
If just for one single moment.
J O'Barr — James O'Barr

Tell them I'm coming, mr. Jones. — James O'Barr

It can't rain all the time. — James O'Barr

victims, aren't we all? — James O'Barr

We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain. — James O'Barr

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. — James O'Barr

Pain? I know pain at the molecular level... It pulls at my atoms... Sings to me in an alphabet of fear... I am the boiling man... come to break the bones of your sins, meat puppet... — James O'Barr

Sarah: Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever ... — James O'Barr