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
JIM MORRISONI 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…
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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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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I think people resist freedom because they’re afraid of the unknown. But it’s ironic.
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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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There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.
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Where’s your will to be weird?
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We are content in the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!
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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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Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth.
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Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with.
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Twentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality.
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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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