Jim Carroll Quotes

We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead.

No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved.

The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

I'll never forget the first time I saw someone who had died. It was my grandfather. And I knelt next to his coffin. And all I could do was eye level was look at his hands. They were enormous hands. And all I could think was, 'Those hands dug freedom for me.'

Blood and death. That moves me.

I don't think we have to have a personal relation to a life lost to understand that something terrible has taken place, especially in the context of war.

In the end, all you want is someone to long for you when it comes time to put you in the ground.

Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.

Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother.

I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.

Now more than ever, I have learned that, when people die, they truly do live throughout those who love them.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

I've dealt with losing close ones before, and I've been around friends that have lost friends at a young age. I think it's important to think about - not necessarily death, but about life and think about where you're going and how you want to be remembered and the legacy you want to leave.

The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance.

The paradox is, I can't miss the good things about my father while he is alive, but I will of course miss him... when he is dead.

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.

I watched children dying. That will be the image that will stay with me.

I taped the autopsy photos from Marilyn Monroe's death to my lunch box in fifth grade, and I would write stories in which someone inevitably died.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

Death is an art, you know.

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

When Jonathan Winters died, it was like, 'Oh, man!' I knew he was frail, but I always thought he was going to last longer. I knew him as being really funny, but at the same time, he had a dark side.

This whole country is a graveyard, and we are all constantly walking on the bones