If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
Jim Morrison
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More quotes by Jim Morrison
- I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
- 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.
- Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
- The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
- We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.