Jim Morrison: Trending quotes (page 6)

“Cool pools
from a tired land
sink now
in the peace of evening
Clouds weaken
and die.
The sun, an orange skull,
whispers quietly, becomes an
island, & is gone. There they are
watching
us everything
will be dark.
The light changed.
We were aware
knee-deep in the fluttering air
as the ships move on
trains in their wake.”

Jim Morrison

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The New Creatures

Peace , Light , Change , Sun

“I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.”

Jim Morrison

As quoted in When You're Strange (2009) by Tom Dicillo

Thinking

“Do you dare
deny my
potency
my kindness
or forgiveness?”

Jim Morrison

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The New Creatures

Forgiveness

“Yoga powers.
To make oneself invisible or small.
To become gigantic and reach to the farthest things.
To change the course of nature.
To place oneself anywhere in space or time.
To summon the dead.
To exalt senses and perceive inaccessible images, of events on other worlds,
in one's deepest inner mind, or in the minds of others.”

Jim Morrison

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision

World , Nature , Sense , Change

“I'm sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the T. V.
Tower.
I want roses in
my garden bower; dig?”

Jim Morrison

An American Prayer (1978)

“Take an Indian home to lunch.”

Jim Morrison

When asked how the USA should celebrate the Bicentennial, as quoted in Avant Garde magazine (March 1968)

Home

“The old get older
And the young get stronger
May take a week
And it may take longer
They got the guns
But we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah
We're takin' over
Come on!”

Jim Morrison

"Five to One" on the album Waiting for the Sun (1968)

“Always a playground instructor, never a Killer”

Jim Morrison

An American Prayer (1978)

“I will not go
Prefer a
feast of Friends
To the Giant family”

Jim Morrison

An American Prayer (1978)

Family

“More or less, we're all afflicted with the psychology of the voyeur. Not in a strictly clinical or criminal sense, but in our whole physical and emotional stance before the world. Whenever we seek to break this spell of passivity, our actions are cruel and awkward and generally obscene, like an invalid who has forgotten to walk.”

Jim Morrison

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision

World , Sense , Affliction

“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.”

Jim Morrison

"The End" from The Doors (1967)
" Always a playground instructor, never a killer running to two young girls freedom and enterprize

Hurt

“We have assembled inside this ancient
& insane theatre
To propagate our lust for life
& flee the swarming wisdom
of the streets”

Jim Morrison

An American Prayer (1978)

Life , Wisdom

“We chased our pleasures here,
Dug our treasures there,
But can you still recall
The time we cried?
Break on through to the other side!”

Jim Morrison

"Break on Through (To The Other Side)" from The Doors

Pleasure , Time

“(Windows work two ways, mirrors one way.)
You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows.”

Jim Morrison

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision

Way

“This is it
no more fun
the death of all joy
has come.”

Jim Morrison

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The New Creatures

Death , Joy

“You know the day destroys the night,
Night divides the day,
Tried to run —
Tried to hide —
Break on through to the other side!”

Jim Morrison

"Break on Through (To The Other Side)" from The Doors (1967)

Night

“Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind. Me and my mother and father, and a grandmother and a grandfather. were driving through the desert, at dawn, and a truck load of Indian workers had either hit another car, or just — I don't know what happened — but there were Indians scattered all over the highway, bleeding to death.
So the car pulls up and stops. That was the first time I tasted fear. I musta' been about four — like a child is like a flower, his head is just floating in the breeze, man. The reaction I get now thinking about it, looking back — is that the souls of the ghosts of those dead Indians… maybe one or two of 'em… were just running around freaking out, and just leaped into my soul. And they're still there.”

Jim Morrison

An American Prayer (1978)

Death , Fear , Cars , Soul

“The world becomes an apparently infinite,
yet possibly finite, card game.
Image combinations,
permutations,
comprise the world game.”

Jim Morrison

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision

World , Game

“They can picture love affairs of chemicals and stars, a romance of stones, or the fertility of fire. Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.”

Jim Morrison

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision

Love , Men , Star , Sense

“Cinema has evolved in two paths. One is spectacle. Like the phantasmagoria, its goal is the creation of a total substitute sensory world. The other is peep show, which claims for its realm both the erotic and the untampered observance of real life, and imitates the keyhole or voyeur's window without need of color, noise, grandeur.”

Jim Morrison

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision

Life , World , Color