Obviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing.
JIM MORRISONPeople 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..
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.
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There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
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To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image
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I think people resist freedom because they’re afraid of the unknown. But it’s ironic.
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD…
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
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I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!
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In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song.
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Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down
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Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then.
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A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he’s been taught—all society’s brainwashing.
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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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There are images I need to complete my own reality.
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Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings.
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They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music.
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Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason
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Man, I’m sick of doubt.
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Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous
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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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You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
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We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves
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