Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
JIM MORRISONWhere are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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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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I wonder why people like to believe I’m high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.
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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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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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Music inflames temperament.
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And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it – they feel like you’re trying to steal their most precious possession.
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Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
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Blood is the rose of mysterious union.
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I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.
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Death Makes Angels of us all.
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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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Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day’s divinity! First thing you see!!
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There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
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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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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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