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
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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Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
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The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.
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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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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
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They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.
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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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This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
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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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I 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…
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People are strange when you’re a stranger.
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A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.
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People 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..
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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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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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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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