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Jim Morrison 129
lead singer of The Doors 1943–1971Related quotes

“A real "wasteland" is much more terrible than any imaginary one.”
The Captive Mind (1953)
Context: Whoever saw, as many did, a whole city reduced to rubble — kilometers of streets on which there remained no trace of life, not even a cat, not even a homeless dog — emerged with a rather ironic attitude toward descriptions of the hell of the big city by contemporary poets, descriptions of the hell in their own souls. A real "wasteland" is much more terrible than any imaginary one. Whoever has not dwelt in the midst of horror and dread cannot know how strongly a witness and participant protests against himself, against his own neglect and egoism. Destruction and suffering are the school of social thought.

“Walt Whitman's a hell of a lot more revolutionary than any Russian poet I've ever heard of.”
Response to the questionnaire "Whiter the American Writer?" in Modern Quarterly, Summer 1932

“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”
Source: Maurice

“There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.”
Source: Les Misérables

“If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.”