Jim Morrison Quotes

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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.

  Jim Morrison

  Inspirational, Positive, Freedom

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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.

  Jim Morrison

  Giving Up, Freedom, Hippie

  "Take Off The Mask" by Siobhan Kukolic, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2016.

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• A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

  Jim Morrison

  Best Friend, Friendship, Being Yourself

  "Indulge In Your Friendships — The Best Reinvention Of Them All" by Kathi Sharpe-Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 2013.

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• Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

  Jim Morrison

  Life, Media, Uprising

  "Readers recommend: songs about control" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2015.

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  Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

  Jim Morrison

  Baby, Lying, Hippie

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• 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.

  Jim Morrison

  Pain, Love Is, Reality

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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  There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.

  Jim Morrison

  Knowledge, Doors, Perception

  Tagline to "The Doors" Documentary, 1991.

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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 pretense...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.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Self Esteem, Hate

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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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.

  Jim Morrison

  Stars, Looks, Gone

  "Straight Whisky: A Living History of Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll on the Sunset Strip" by Erik Quisling, and Austin Lowry Williams, (p. 152), 2003.

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• Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

  Jim Morrison

  Normal, Ifs

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• The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

  Jim Morrison

  Time, Ends, Uncertain

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• It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

  Jim Morrison

  Pieces, May, Best Of Me

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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.

  Jim Morrison

  Death, Hurt, Pain

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• The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first.

  Jim Morrison

  Important, Levels, Firsts

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

  Jim Morrison

  Drunk, Drink, Disguise

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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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.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

  Jim Morrison

  Love You, Self Worth, People

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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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.

  Jim Morrison

  People, Serious

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• You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

  Jim Morrison

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• 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 securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?

  Jim Morrison

  Lying, Fighting, Men

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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.

  Jim Morrison

  People, Way, Achieve

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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• A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

  Jim Morrison

  Men, Other Worlds, Paradise

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• Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. 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.

  Jim Morrison

  Reality, Idols, People

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• Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

  Jim Morrison

  Dream, Song, Inspirational Love

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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.

  Jim Morrison

  Freedom, Thinking, Greatest Fear

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