We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
JIM MORRISONWe fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
JIM MORRISONWhat have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister?
JIM MORRISONHatred is a very underestimated emotion.
JIM MORRISONIf my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
JIM MORRISONTwentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality.
JIM MORRISONYou have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
JIM MORRISONPain 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.
JIM MORRISONSociety, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with.
JIM MORRISONWindows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
JIM MORRISONPeople 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..
JIM MORRISONWhen you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
JIM MORRISONWe don’t plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we’ll play.
JIM MORRISONMaybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up.
JIM MORRISONI 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
JIM MORRISONLove cannot save you from your own fate.
JIM MORRISONWhere are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
JIM MORRISON