Jim Morrison Quotes
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Quotes to Explore
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
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I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.
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I have my own studio down in Miami.
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Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
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Peace is its own reward.
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Citizens who live or work near protest sites or marches have every right to be free of violence from protesters, and they should never be subjected to destruction of property.
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I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.
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Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
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And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.
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Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.
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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
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Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.
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I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.
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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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I'm somewhat in my own cloud.
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More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.
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I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
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The black community is my community - the LGBT community, too, and the female community. That is my community. That's me; it's who I am.
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Everybody has got their vibes - it could be mountain biking, it could be hiking, but for me, it's surfing and music. There's a lot of different things, but I think love gives us peace one way or another, and a calming effect on our soul, so I don't know exactly what love is to me, but I know I try my best to surround myself with that.
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One of the lessons I learned was that there are good people everywhere. That village, Sabray, saved my life.
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
