People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit
JIM MORRISONRather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image
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All games contain the idea of death.
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We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves
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The best songs just come unasked for. You don’t have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
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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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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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Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.
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I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality…
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You live you die and death not ends it.
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Jealousy we understood and thought natural–a desire to have what somebody else had; but envy was a strange, new feeling for us.
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I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
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Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’
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I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
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They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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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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Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I’ll give you love unfolding.
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You have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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Obviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing.
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The time to hesitate is through.
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Death Makes Angels of us all.
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When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces.
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Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
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