Warren Zevon Quotes

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

I do feel that softness for the vulnerability and the innocence in our world, including my own.

I have a soft spot for children.

Sara: "You are so brave," I tell her, and then I smile. "When I grow up, I want to be just like you." To my surprise, Kate shakes her head hard. Her voice is a feather, a thread. "No Mommy," she says. "You'd be sick.

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

I need you to protect me from being lonely. Don't fight for me. Be with me.That's what I need."-Bianca to Lucas

Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger.

He gathers me up and I'm weightless before he sets me on the railing. He's the only thing keeping me from falling back, out of the reach of daylight. I'm not afraid of falling. I don't fear the sky beyond the train tracks like I did before. I can go anywhere just so long as it's with him.

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.

This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

Do we say, Oh now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages?

It's natural to feel fear. All great warriors are afraid. Only the stupid and the delusional are not.

I thank God who slowly dressed me in a heavy skin, otherwise I would now be dead.

I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.

Growing old is not a thing to watch. It cannot be forgiven in others. Alone, it can be borne. Even indulged.

You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world.

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

with courage a human being is safe enough. And without it - he is never for one instant safe!

White means the strength of fragility and the fragility of the passage of time.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.

Then there's that 'You're only as old as you feel' business, which is true to a point, but you can't be Shirley Temple on the Good Ship Lollipop forever. Sooner or later, dammit, you're old.