Top 166 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Morrison
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Love cannot save you from your own fate.
I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.
Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
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.
Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
Where's your will to be weird?
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
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.
Film spectators are quiet vampires.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.
If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through any one that suits you.
Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
This is the strangest life I've ever known.
Music inflames temperament.
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.
The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your 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.
Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Drugs are a bet with your mind.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.
I see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.
Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
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.
Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.
I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.
I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.
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 pretense...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.
Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.
How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their securityHow can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?
People are terrified to be set free - they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It's their security... How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don't really want to be free?
Most people love you for who you pretend to be.
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are...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.
It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.
I think people resist freedom because they're afraid of the unknown. But it's ironic....That unknown was once very well known. It's where our souls belong....The only solution is to confront them - confront yourself - with the greatest fear imaginable. Expose yourself to your deepest fear. After that, fear has no power, and fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality...
Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal
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.
The future is uncertain but the end is always near.
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin... The program for this evening is not new. You've seen this entertainment through and through. You've seen your birth, your life and death. You might recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?
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.
Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything—not just wealth. All the bullshit he's been taught—all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that.
Do you know the warm progress under the stars?
Do you know we exist?
Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom?
Have you been born yet
& are you alive?
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