Jim Morrison Quotations

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

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.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Now the bulk of the first-quarter corporate earnings are out of the way, the markets will move on the back of the economic data coming out, so we could be set for a choppy weak. Our clients are still suspicious of the rally in equities and prefer to remain short.

He just took over in overtime. He willed them to the win. I can't be disappointed with our effort, we are getting better. At the beginning of the season we were losing games by 50 points and now we're are competing with one of the best teams in the state.

He was the best player on the court, there's no question about that. We didn't have many answers for him. We tried to deny him the ball all over the court and he got too many good looks at it. He was the difference. It seemed like he just scored the entire game...He's a very talented offensive player. There's not much that we could do with him. Hopefully we'll have better luck next time.

Those first few songs I wrote, I was taking notes at a fantastic rock concert going on in my head.

Traders are focusing on the good news and Intel is the big one today, pushing the Nasdaq futures up almost 0.8 percent,

This needed to be done. It was just a pitiful sight to see the people coming in from New Orleans so dejected with their pets.

When play dies it becomes the Game When sex dies it becomes Climax.

We were winning, 6-4, early on, then we got blitzed. They decided to take it to another level and we're not capable of going there.

TV on handsets is rubbish. People won't pay to get TV on their mobile phones. Imagine watching it on a train. You'd lose signal as soon as you entered a tunnel.

Is everybody in?The ceremony is about to begin

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

Without touch we are but hunks of wood.

This is an effective, fun way to bring greater attention to voting. We're eager to see which municipality will have bragging rights for the next seven months.

Adolf Hitler is still alive... I slept with her last night.

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleedingGhosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind

Initially, I didn't start out to be a member of a band. I wanted to make films, write plays, books. When I found myself in a band, I wanted to bring some of these ideas into it. We never did much with it, though.

I hope you people are happy, ... because you people just screwed the borough.

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 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.

You could say it's an accident that I was ideally suited for the work I am doing. It's the feeling of a bow string being pulled back for 22 years and suddenly being let go...

For equities to continue their rise, traders will want to see more good results from the corporate sector. There is little in the way of important economic data until Friday's durable goods number.

It's all relative, but we played well in stretches, which gave me hope for next week.

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.

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 - 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.

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. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they are afraid to feel. Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide 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.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

Lets just say I was testing the bounds of reality.

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.

Where's your will to be weird?

There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theatres to recall the sensation of rain.

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

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

Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen this entertainment through and through you have seen your birth, your life, your death....you may recall all the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? -enough to base a movie on??

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.

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

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

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

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?

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

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?

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.

We could plan a murder, or start a religion...

The Night is young & full of rest I can’t describe the way she’s dress’d She’ll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.

All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

Blood is the rose of mysterious union.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

Take it easy baby, take it as it comes - specialize in having fun!

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

Tell them you came, and saw, and looked into my eyes and saw the shadow of the guard receding. Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason. [...] Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you? All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.

Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.

Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves

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

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.

A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving

I am the Lizard King, I can do anything!

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.

There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr...

There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

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

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?

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.

Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day's divinity! First thing you see!!

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.

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....

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