James O'Barr > Quotes

“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, The Crow

“It can't rain all the time.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

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

“We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Life is just a dream on the way to death.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Sarah: "Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever...”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“It's not death if you refuse it...
It is if you accept it.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Nothing is trivial.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Remember when you said "Mine?" and I said "Forever". You said "Only forver?" It's forever, now.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“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, The Crow

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of all children. Do you understand? Do you understand?”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Sometimes I dream of sleepiness,
sometimes I feel like I'm alive.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.”
― James O'Barr

“Death, like virtue, has its degrees.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow, édition définitive

“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

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

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

“I know why Jesus wept, motherfucker.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Eric screams and screams and pounds his head against the wall until phantom fire trucks race across his vision. All he wants is pain. Pain and hate. Yes, hate. But never fear. Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Life is lousy with hurt but it also shimmers with beauty.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Tonight, hell sends an angel bearing gifts...”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Shouldn't have looked, boy...”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“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, The Crow: Special Edition

“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, The Crow: Special Edition

“Jesus Christ walks into a hotel... He hands the innkeeper three nails and he asks... Can you put me up for the night”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Hey gunslinger... nice shot.”
― James O'Barr, The Crow

“Who ever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”
― James O'Barr

“victims, aren't we all?”
― J. O'Barr