Jim Morrison Quotes

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

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind”

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

“I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.”

“The future is uncertain but the end is always near.”

“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”

“You've seen your birth, your
life and death; you might recall
all of the rest — (did you
have a good world when you
died?) — enough to base
a movie on?”

“Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.”

“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”

“I touched her thigh
and death smiled”

“People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone”

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

“People are strange…”

“If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.”

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

“Money beats soul every goddamn time.”

“No one here gets out alive.”

“Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of god”

“I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then — whoosh, and I'm gone… and they'll never see anything like it ever again… and they won't be able to forget me — ever.”

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”

“It’s like gambling, somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don’t know where you’re going to end up the next day. It could work out good, or it could be disastrous. It’s like the throw of the dice.”

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

“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.”

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

“A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.”

“Indian, Indian what did you die for?
Indian says, nothing at all.”

“A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself-and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.”

“Where's your will to be weird?”

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”

“Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.”

“There are no laws, there are no rules, just grab your friend and love him.”

“Drugs are a bet with your mind.”

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

“I'll never wake up in a good mood again.
I'm tired of these stinky boots”

“I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft…”

“Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.”

“All our lives we sweat and save,
Building for a shallow grave.”

“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”

“No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.”

“There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirming like a toad.”

“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

“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.”

“There are things known
and there are things unknown
and in between are the doors.”

“I can't believe this is happening
I can't believe all these people
are sniffing each other
& backing away
teeth grinning
hair raised, growling, here in
the slaughtered wind”

“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?”

“Now listen to this…
Ill tell you about texas radio and the big beat”

“Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter.”

“Don't worry, the operation won't take long and you'll feel much better in the morning.”

“The Lords have secret entrances and they know disguises. But they give themselves away in minor ways. Too much glint of light in the eye. A wrong gesture. Too long and curious a glance.”

“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just… in between.”

“Death makes angels of us all
and gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's
claws”

“Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.”

“I am troubled, immeasurably
by your eyes.
I am struck by the feather
of your soft reply.
The sound of glass
speaks quick, disdain
and conceals
what your eyes fight
to explain.”

“I'll tell you this —
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.”

“Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel… City of Night?”

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

“Love cannot save you from your own fate.”

“This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.”

“Do you know we are being led to
Slaughters by placid admirals

& that fat slow generals are getting
Obscene on young blood

Do you know we are ruled by t. v.”

“I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom… Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.”

“Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real?”

“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”

“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.”

“Well, I've been down so Goddamn long,
that it looks like up to me.”

“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”

“Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss”

“You live you die and death not ends it.”