Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
JIM MORRISONPeople 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.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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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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How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?
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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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We felt comfortable in our skins, enjoyed the news that our senses released to us, admired our dirt, cultivated our scars, and could not comprehend this unworthiness.
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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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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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Guileless and without vanity, we were still in love with ourselves then.
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There’s nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
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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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When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.
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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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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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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces.
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There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.
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They grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are.
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When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
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That unknown was once very well known. It’s where our souls belong….
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
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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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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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Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up.
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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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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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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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I wouldn’t mind dying in a plane crash. It’d be a good way to go. I don’t want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD…
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Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.
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