Jim Morrison Quotes

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.

~ Jim Morrison

I am troubled, immeasurablyby your eyes. I am struck by the featherof your soft reply.The sound of glassspeaks quick, disdainand concealswhat your eyes fightto explain.

~ Jim Morrison

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. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.

~ Jim Morrison

No one here gets out alive.

~ Jim Morrison

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

~ Jim Morrison

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

~ Jim Morrison

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??

~ Jim Morrison

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.

~ Jim Morrison

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

~ Jim Morrison

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

~ Jim Morrison

There are things known and there are things unknownand in between are the doors.

~ Jim Morrison

Door of passage to the other side, the soul frees itself in stride.

~ Jim Morrison

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

~ Jim Morrison

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

~ Jim Morrison

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

~ Jim Morrison

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

~ Jim Morrison

Love is a dream. Dreams are good, but do not be surprised if you wake up in tears.

~ Jim Morrison

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.

~ Jim Morrison

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

~ Jim Morrison

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.

~ Jim Morrison

People are strange when you're a stranger.

~ Jim Morrison

We are content with the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.

~ Jim Morrison

It is wrong to assume that art needs the spectator in order to be. The film runs on without any eyes. The spectator cannot exist without it. It insures his existence.

~ Jim Morrison

The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun…

~ Jim Morrison

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

~ Jim Morrison

She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

~ Jim Morrison

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.

~ Jim Morrison

Look where we worship.

~ Jim Morrison

Sleep is an under-ocean dipped into each night.

~ Jim Morrison

Do you know we are being led toSlaughters by placid admirals& that fat slow generals are gettingObscene on young bloodDo you know we are ruled by t.v.

~ Jim Morrison

Where's your will to be weird?

~ Jim Morrison

People are strange . . .

~ Jim Morrison

Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tideSurrender to the waiting worldsThat lap against our side.

~ Jim Morrison

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

~ Jim Morrison

In the holy solipsism of the youngNow I can't walk thru a citystreet w/out eying eachsingle pedestrian. I feelthier vibe thru myskin, the hair on my neck--- it rises.

~ Jim Morrison

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.

~ Jim Morrison

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.

~ Jim Morrison

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

~ Jim Morrison

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

~ Jim Morrison

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.

~ Jim Morrison