The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
JIM MORRISONThe world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
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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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Give form to the passing World. Freeways are a drama.
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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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Is everybody in?… Is everybody in?… Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin…
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I’ve always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.
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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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Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
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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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Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous
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That unknown was once very well known. It’s where our souls belong….
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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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No one here gets out alive.
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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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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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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
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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? I think it’s a lie – people claim they want to be free
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Do you know the warm progress under the stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom? Have you been born yet & are you alive?
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Violence isn’t always evil. What’s evil is the infatuation with violence.
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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality…
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All games contain the idea of death.
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I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps “Oh look at that!” Then – whoosh, and I’m gone… and they’ll never see anything like it ever again… and they won’t be able to forget me – ever.
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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.
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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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You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…
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