Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by James O'Barr

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American artist James O'Barr.
Last updated on April 15, 2025.
James O'Barr

James O'Barr is an American comics artist, writer and graphic artist, best known as the creator of the comic book series The Crow.

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.
So the crow spirals down through a collapsed dream and the only sound it makes in like a concave scream.
We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain. — © James O'Barr
We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.
Life is just a dream on the way to death.
Death, like virtue, has its degrees.
It's not death if you refuse it... It is if you accept it.
Childhood is over when you know you’re gonna die.
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.
If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.
Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you. The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.
Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.
It can't rain all the time.
There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.
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