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 MorrisonExpose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Jim MorrisonThe world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.
Jim MorrisonDeath makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
Jim MorrisonI can make the earth stop in its tracks. I made the blue cars go away. I can make myself invisible or small. I can become gigantic & reach the farthest things. I can change the course of nature. I can place myself anywhere in space or time. I can summon the dead. I can perceive events on other worlds, in my deepest inner mind, & in the minds of others. I can I am
Jim MorrisonThe Night is young & full of rest I can’t describe the way she’s dress’d She’ll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.
Jim MorrisonRather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.
Jim MorrisonI think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.
Jim MorrisonA hero is someone who rebels, or seems to rebel, against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them, but obviously that can work at moments.
Jim MorrisonFriends 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 MorrisonHow 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 MorrisonWe are content in the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.
Jim MorrisonIn the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.
Jim MorrisonThe subject says: I see first many things which dance... then everything gradually becomes connected.
Jim MorrisonIt's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
Jim MorrisonBlake 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.
Jim MorrisonAll the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
Jim MorrisonA man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
Jim MorrisonThe 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 MorrisonThat’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...
Jim MorrisonTell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
Jim MorrisonAdolescence and early youth...the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands...and rock is screaming type music.
Jim MorrisonIf my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Jim MorrisonWindows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.
Jim MorrisonAre you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?
Jim MorrisonWe're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us
Jim MorrisonGetting drunk . . . you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like . . . I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
Jim MorrisonWhere are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
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