Top 21 Jim Carroll Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I was a Catholic boy, redeemed through pain, not through joy,
Jim Carroll
#3. Poverty of young men alone behind the
stairways, who practice
alchemy inside bottle caps, who know
the altruism of a last syringe.
Jim Carroll
#4. It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.
Jim Carroll
#5. All right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay
Jim Carroll
#6. My voice has a quiver/ A quiver is where you keep arrows until you shoot them.
Jim Carroll
#7. I wind up stretched across the couch
still nodding with Sherlock Holmes
examining our crushed veins
Jim Carroll
#8. 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 one'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
#9. 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
#10. There are times when the vehicle is in the ready mode, there are no indications externally that the vehicle can move and yet if someone accidentally hits the pedal, say when someone's inside, the car will move.
Jim Carroll
#11. Back then, Billy imagined that drops of rain were unanswered prayers falling back to earth.
Jim Carroll
#12. Little kids shoot marbles
where the branches break the sun
into graceful shafts of light ...
I just want to be pure.
Jim Carroll
#13. I love this mansion, though it is too many windows
... to open halfway each morning
... to close halfway each night.
Jim Carroll
#14. they're fucking up minds they do not own.
Jim Carroll
#15. 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
#16. Conscience is no more than the dead speaking to us.
Jim Carroll
#17. That, I realized, is the great beauty of dreams: the devil may inevitably find a way to jerk you off, but you can always wake up before he makes you cum.
Jim Carroll
#18. I'll Die For Your Sins If You Live For mine.
Jim Carroll
#19. I sleep on a tar roof
scream my songs
into lazy floods of stars ...
a white powder paddles through blood and heart
and the returns
pure and easy ...
This city is on my side.
Jim Carroll
#20. Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.
Jim Carroll
#21. You see, you just don't know
I'm here to give you my heart
And you want some fashion show
Jim Carroll
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