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.
JIM MORRISONYou feel your strength in the experience of pain.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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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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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces.
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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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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 time to hesitate is through.
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Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.
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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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They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?
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Jealousy we understood and thought natural–a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.
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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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You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren’t willing to do that.
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Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.
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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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I offer images-I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached-like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors-we can’t drag people through.
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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 think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just…in between.
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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 have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
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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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They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
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Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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The best songs just come unasked for. You don’t have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
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Is everybody in?… Is everybody in?… Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin…
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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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