Jim Morrison Quotes - Page 2

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• Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

  Jim Morrison

  Cynical, Hatred, Emotion

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• Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught—all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.

  Jim Morrison

  Letting Go, Giving Up, People

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• Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

  Jim Morrison

  Mistake, Hippie, Worst

  "Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Music is your only friend until the end...

  Jim Morrison

  Ends, Music Is

  "Song: When the Music's Over (Strange Days)". September 25, 1967.

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• Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

  Jim Morrison

  Divorce, Glowing, Names

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• Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You'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?

  Jim Morrison

  World, May, Evening

  "Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", 1991.

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• I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

  Jim Morrison

  Thinking, Important, Experience

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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.

  Jim Morrison

  Hilarious, Blow, Intelligent

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• That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Famous Love, Being Yourself, True Friend

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

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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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• 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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• 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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  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.

  Jim Morrison

  Sex, Truth, Honesty

  "Into This House We're Born". Book by James Hunt, p. 262, July 1, 2006.

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

  Jim Morrison

  People, Uncomfortable, Shakes

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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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• This is the strangest life I've ever known.

  Jim Morrison

  Doors, Known

  "Song: 'Waiting for the Sun'". 1970.

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• Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...

  Jim Morrison

  Reality, Testing, Bounds

  "Fictional character: Jim Morrison". "The Doors", 1991.

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

  Jim Morrison

  Real, Doors, Suits You

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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• We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves

  Jim Morrison

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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.

  Jim Morrison

  Children, Parenting, Progress

  "College Students and Their Helicopter Parents: a Recipe for Stress" by Karl Gude, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2014.

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• All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.

  Jim Morrison

  Sweat, Building, Shallow

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• Some people surrender their freedom willingly but others are forced to surrender it. Imprisonment begins with birth. Society, parents they refuse to allow you to keep the freedom you were born with. There are subtle ways to punish a person for daring to feel. You see that everyone around you has destroyed his true feeling nature. You imitate what you see.

  Jim Morrison

  Freedom, People, Parent

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• The time to hesitate is through.

  Jim Morrison

  Music, Commitment

  Song: Ligth My Fire!

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• There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr...

  Jim Morrison

  Doors, Two, Knows

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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?

  Jim Morrison

  Stars, Keys, Progress

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