“I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”

“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on.”

Bill Withers (1938–2020) American singer-songwriter and musician

“I grieve for you
You leave me
So hard to move on
Still loving what's gone
They say life carries on
Carries on and on and on and on…”

Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian

“Fish cannot carry guns.”

Philip K. Dick book VALIS

“High in the sky is a bird on a wing
Please carry me with you
Far far away from the mad rushing crowd
Please carry me with you”

Tom Springfield (1934) English musician, songwriter and record producer

“All that's mine I carry with me.”
Omnia mea mecum porto.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“I carry the bars within me.”

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author

“Nice girls don’t carry guns.”

Alastair Reynolds book Century Rain

“You don't have to carry a gun to be a freedom fighter.”

Mac Maharaj (1935) South African politician