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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
- Charles Bukowski

“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.”
- Jim Morrison

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
- Charles Bukowski

“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

“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.”
- Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“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 - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.”
- Jim Morrison

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
- Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
- Charles Bukowski

“It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.”
- Jim Morrison

“there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.”
- Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.”
- Jim Morrison

“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
- Charles Bukowski

“You feel your strength in the experience of pain.”
- Jim Morrison

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”
- Charles Bukowski

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

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”
- Charles Bukowski

“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”
- Jim Morrison, Eyes: Poetry, 1967-1971

“Some lose all mind and become soul,insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”
- Charles Bukowski

“I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.”
- Jim Morrison

“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
- Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.”
- Jim Morrison

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
- Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

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

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
- Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“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.”
- Jim Morrison

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
- Charles Bukowski

“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.”
- Charles Bukowski

“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”
- Jim Morrison

“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.”
- Charles Bukowski

“Nobody understands you better than yourself, but if someone tries to do it is because he loves you.”
- Jim Morrison

“Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
- Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“We are content with the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.”
- Jim Morrison, The Lords and the New Creatures

“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.”
- Charles Bukowski

“She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.”
- Jim Morrison, Wilderness: The Lost Writings, Vol. 1

“she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”
- Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last




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