Jim Morrison Quotes

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Jim Morrison

Profession : Singer

Birth : December 8, 1943

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

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

Jim Morrison

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

Jim Morrison

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

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

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Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Jim Morrison

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

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

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.

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There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

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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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Where's your will to be weird?

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Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Jim Morrison

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

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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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Music inflames temperament.

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

Jim Morrison

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 experence.

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Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

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

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