Jim Morrison Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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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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“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.”
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“Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws”
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“Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??”
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“I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.”
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“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
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“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
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“Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.”
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“What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down”
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“Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. 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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“I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free....”
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“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.”
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“I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again... and they won't be able to forget me- ever.”
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“That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.”
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“No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.”
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“There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.”
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“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.”
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“When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.”
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“I'll never wake up in a good mood again. I'm tired of these stinky boots”
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“No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”
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“The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…”
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“Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.”
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“Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?”
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“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”
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“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”
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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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“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”
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