I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
JIM MORRISONYou’ve seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?
More Jim Morrison Quotes
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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.
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People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they’re emotionally dead.
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This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
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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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I’ve noticed that when people are joking they’re usually dead serious, and when they’re serious, they’re usually pretty funny.
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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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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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We could plan a murder Or start a religion.
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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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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
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Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.
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You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.
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I wonder why people like to believe I’m high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.
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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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Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up.
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