Jim Morrison Quotes (80 Quotes)

Where's your will to be weird?

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

Music inflames temperament.

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them.

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

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

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

We are from the West. The world we suggest should be of a new wild West, a sensuous, evil world, strange and haunting. The path of the sun.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

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

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.

I've always liked reptiles. I used to see the universe as a mammoth snake, and I used to see all the people and objects, landscapes, as little pictures in the facets of their scales. I think peristaltic motion is the basic life movement. Swallowing,

I offer images- I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached- like the Doors, right But we can only open the doors, we can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free. 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 that 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.

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.

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

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

The voyeur is masturbator, the mirror his badge, the window his prey.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art perfect our lives.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

I'd hate to think I'd stop having anything to do with music, but I think that in the future, I'll tend towards an exclusive film involvement.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself.

I think I was just fed up with the image that had been created around me, which I sometimes consciously, most of the time unconsciously cooperated with. It just got too much for me to really stomach and so I put an end to it one glorious evening.

Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts. All energy and sensation is sucked up into the skull, a cerebral erection, skull bloated with blood. Caligula wished a single neck for all his subjects that he could behead a kingdom with one blow. Cinema is this transfoming agent. The body exists for the sake of the eyes it becomes a dry stalk to support these two soft insatiable jewels.

I think of myself as a sensitive,Intelligent human Being, But with the soul of a clown that always forces me to blow itAt the most crucial moment.

I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once I don't want to miss it.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.

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-