Jim Morrison quotes ....he seems so real ...

American Poet and Singer. Member of the American band The Doors and one of rock music's mythic figures. 1943-1971

“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. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. 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. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”



“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”



“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”



“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.”



“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-”



“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”



“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”



“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.”



“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”



“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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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.”



“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.”



“Where's your will to be weird?”



“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...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.”



“This is the strangest life I've ever known.”



“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything.”


“"as i look back...over my life...i am struck by post cards...ruined snapshots...faded posters...of a time..i can't recall”




“the future's uncertain and the end is always near”
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“I believe in a long, prolonged derangement of the senses to attain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us.”




“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
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“Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.”



“Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.”




“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”


“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.”



“I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.”



“When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.”



“I am the lizard king. I can do anything.”



“There are things known, and there are things unknown, And in between are the Doors”



“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”



“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.”

“Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.”



“Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.”



“How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie – people claim they want to be free – 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. 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?”




“The time to hesitate is through.”



“Actually I don't remember being born, It must have happened during one of my black outs.”



“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”



“You're all a bunch of fuckin' slaves!”



“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder , chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.”



“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.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.”