Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
JIM MORRISONPeople are strange when you’re a stranger.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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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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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are…There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.
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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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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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Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
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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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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. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is….Most people love you for who you pretend to be…
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I’m kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
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I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!
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It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
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People fear death even more than pain. It’s strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
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People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they’re emotionally dead.
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The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.
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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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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom…
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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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The time to hesitate is through.
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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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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Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding.
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Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I’ll give you love unfolding.
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All our songs are about love, travel and death.
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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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All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
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