I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just…in between.
JIM MORRISONHow can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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I’ve always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
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All games contain the idea of death.
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Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
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What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister?
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This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
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Take it easy baby, take it as it comes – specialize in having fun!
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The time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre
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Is everybody in?… Is everybody in?… Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin…
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All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
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Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’
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I wonder why people like to believe I’m high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.
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How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it’s a lie – people claim they want to be free
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I think people resist freedom because they’re afraid of the unknown. But it’s ironic.
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I like to let each thing happen – direct it a little consciously, maybe – but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance.
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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it’s usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move.
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No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
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People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security..
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Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
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I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
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I want to feel what it’s like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don’t want to miss it
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Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
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Getting drunk . . . you’re in complete control up to a point. It’s your choice, every time you take a sip.
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