Jim Carroll famous quotes

03-28-2025

Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
-- Jim Carroll

#Conscience
I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.
-- Jim Carroll

#Sin
You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there is rain. It clears the month of your sorry rainbow expressions, and it clears the streets of the silent armies... so we can dance.
-- Jim Carroll

#Growing Up #Sorry #Rain
Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing it to be something sensuous . . . the viewer's lips slightly wet as the scene plays out. Violence is nothing like that. It is lightning fast, chaotic, and totally intangible.
-- Jim Carroll

#Play #Violence #Lips
Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of lightâ€¦ I just want to be pure.
-- Jim Carroll

#Kids #Light #Sun
On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to oneâ€™s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.
-- Jim Carroll

#Loyalty #Watches #Body
It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following, soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color and I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.
-- Jim Carroll

#Beautiful #Girl #Dream
You see, you just don't know I'm here to give you my heart And you want some fashion show
-- Jim Carroll

#Fashion #Heart #Giving
Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.
-- Jim Carroll

#Real #Team #Uniforms
all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay
-- Jim Carroll

#Pay
I love this mansion, though it is too many windows ...to open halfway each morning ...to close halfway each night.
-- Jim Carroll

#Morning #Night #Window
Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.
-- Jim Carroll

#Dream #Light #Color

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