Sabrina > Sabrina's Quotes

“Where's your will to be weird?”
― Jim Morrison

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”
― Jim Morrison

“There are things known
and there are things unknown
and in between are the doors.”
― Jim Morrison, Letters from Joe

“People are strange . . .”
― Jim Morrison

“Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.”
― Jim Morrison

“Man, I'm sick of doubt.”
― Jim Morrison

“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts”
― Jim Morrison

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

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

“This is the strangest life I have ever known.”
― Jim Morrison

“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
― John Lennon

“Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got.”
― Janis Joplin

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.”
― William Blake, Auguries of Innocence

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
― William Blake

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
― William Blake

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

“Everything to be imagined is an image of truth.”
― William Blake

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. 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 MORRISON

“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.”
― William Blake

“The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive.
And particularly they studied the genius of each city & country, placing it under its mental deity;
Till a system was formed, which some took advantage of & enslav’d the vulgar by attempting to realize or abstract the mental deities from their objects: thus began Priesthood;
Choosing forms of worship from poetic tales.
And at length they pronounc’d that the Gods had order’d such things.
Thus men forgot that All deities reside in the human breast.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Without Contraries is no Progression.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“A dead body revenges not injuries.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
― William Blake

“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.”
― William Blake

“To generalize is to be an idiot.”
― William Blake