Jonathan Carroll Quotes

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

The champagne was dead. So it goes.

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

I envy the dead.

The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

The past is buried and I mourn it with greater pain than many among you, because no human power can awaken it when the Crown itself has scattered ashes upon the coffin.

Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

You're going to lose eventually. It doesn't matter who you are.

Hope is a punishable offense. The verdict is always death; one more death of the heart.

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.

In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

Tribe follows tribe, and nation follows nation, like the waves of the sea. It is the order of nature, and regret is useless.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Death threatens our speech with futility because death is not just a biological event - it is a reality we fear may rob our living of any significance.

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?

I'm dying always.

Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

Losing hurts me.