Jim Morrison: Trending quotes (page 4)

“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”

“When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder… the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.”

“Well, I've been down so Goddamn long,
that it looks like up to me.”

“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”

“Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss”

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

“You live you die and death not ends it.”

“The Gate is Straight, Deep and Wide; Break On Through to the other side.”

“Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.”

“Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.”

“Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful
comes death on a strange hour
unannounced, unplanned for
like a scaring over-friendly guest you've
brought to bed
Death makes angels of us all
& gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's
claws”

“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.”

“The 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.”

“Lying on stained wretched sheets with the bleeding virgin,
we could plan a murder…or start a religion.”

“The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…”

“There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.”

“Once you make peace with authority you
become an authority”

“Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal”

“Death Makes Angels of us all.”