11 Jim Morrison Quotes on Reality

Jim Morrison quotes on reality

12. I'll tell you this - No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

17. The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

18. Cinema has evolved in two paths. One is spectacle. Like the phantasmagoria, its goal is the creation of a total substitute sensory world. The other is peep show, which claims for its realm both the erotic and the untampered observance of real life, and imitates the keyhole or voyeur's window without need of color, noise, grandeur.

20. Few would defend a small view of Alchemy as 'Mother of Chemistry', and confuse its true goal with those external metal arts. Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter. Not to suggest that material operations are ever abandoned. The adept holds to both the mystical and physical work.

45. What that book (Lords and New Creatures) is a lot about is the powerlessness that people have in the face of reality. They have no real control over events or their own lives. Something is controlling them. The closest they ever get is the television set.

62. People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.

63. They claim everyone was born, but I don't recall it. Maybe I was having one of my blackouts.

66. We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half-formed shadow of our lost reality. 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.

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

94. Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity.

105. There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

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