We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
JIM MORRISONYou get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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The program for this evening is not new. You’ve seen this entertainment through and through.
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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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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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Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.
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Each day is a drive through history.
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Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up.
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They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?
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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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They grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are.
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A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
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A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
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Twentieth-century culture’s disease is the inability to feel their reality.
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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That’s all it was curiosity.
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There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.
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I like to let each thing happen – direct it a little consciously, maybe – but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance.
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