Jim Morrison Quotes

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

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.

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.

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...

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

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

No one gets out of here alive.

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.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

Where's your will to be weird?

What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down

The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

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

I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!

Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

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

People are strange when you're a stranger.

How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?

All our songs are about love, travel and death.

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

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

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

No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.

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

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

The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them . . . Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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.

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

Music is your only friend until the end...

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft.

I can kind of envision one person with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronic set-ups...singi ng or speaking and using machines.

[...] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.

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 want the world and we want it...

There are images I need to complete my own reality.

Blood is the rose of mysterious union.

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