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.
JIM MORRISONThoughts 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
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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We’re reaching for death on the end of a candle We’re trying for something that’s already found us
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Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with.
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Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
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I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps “Oh look at that!” Then – whoosh, and I’m gone… and they’ll never see anything like it ever again… and they won’t be able to forget me – ever.
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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel.
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Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
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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 am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply.
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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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The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
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How 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.
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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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There may be a time when we’ll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.
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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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A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
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What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister?
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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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Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?
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Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous
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Love cannot save you from your own fate.
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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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Death Makes Angels of us all.
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I’ve noticed that when people are joking they’re usually dead serious, and when they’re serious, they’re usually pretty funny.
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Everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that’s bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains.
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