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.
JIM MORRISONPain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up.
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I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just…in between.
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You’ve seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?
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We are content in the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
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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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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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Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also.
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Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.
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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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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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People are strange when you’re a stranger.
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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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That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is..
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A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.
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Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
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