“Nobody feels any pain
Tonight as I stand inside the rain”
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Just Like A Woman
Song lyrics, The Bootleg Series Vol. 9: The Witmark Demos: 1962–1964 (2010), Long Time Gone (recorded 1962)
“I said, "You know they refused Jesus, too"
He said, "You're not Him"”
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Bob Dylan's 115th Dream
“They already expect you to just give a check to tax-deductible charity organization.”
Song lyrics, Highway 61 Revisited (1965), Ballad of a Thin Man
Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/84-jul30.htm with Bert Kleinman (30 July 1984). Cf. C. S. Lewis: "People won't write the books I want, so I have to do it for myself."
“I heard the roar of a wave that could drown the whole world.”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
“The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.”
Song lyrics, The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964), With God On Our Side
Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview http://www.interferenza.com/bcs/interw/1991zollo.htm by Paul Zollo (1991)
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), You're a Big Girl Now
Neil Hickey TV Guide interview http://www.punkhart.com/dylan/interviews/sep_1976.html (11 September 1976)
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind
“I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.”
On the influence of Jack Kerouac on him, as quoted Grasping for the Wind : The Search for Meaning in the 20th Century (2001) by John W. Whitehead
“For man has invented his doom; first step was touching the moon.”
Song lyrics, Infidels (1983), License to Kill
“You can't win with a losing hand”
Song lyrics, The Essential Bob Dylan (2000), Things Have Changed (recorded 1999)
Song lyrics, Self Portrait (1970), Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), If You See Her, Say Hello
Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Up to Me (recorded 1974)
“Take care of all your memories. said my friend Mick, For you cannot relive them.”
Song lyrics, The Basement Tapes (1975), Open the Door, Homer (recorded 1967)
Variant: Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
“I'll eat when I'm hungry, drink when I'm dry”
Song lyrics, Time Out of Mind (1997), Standing In The Doorway
Compare: "But yours will be the rulership of nations, / remember Roman, these will be your arts: / to teach the ways of peace to those you conquer, / to spare defeated peoples, tame the proud." The Aeneid of Virgil: A Verse Translation by Allen Mandelbaum, 6.1134–1137.
Song lyrics, Love and Theft (2001), Lonesome Day Blues