Jim Morrison Quotes

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

No one here gets out alive.

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

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

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

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.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

Music inflames temperament.

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

Look where we worship.

Sleep is an under-ocean dipped into each night.

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

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

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

We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us

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.

People are strange . . .

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

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

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.

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.

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.

I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.

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

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

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.

Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts

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

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.

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

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

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

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

People are strange when you're a stranger.

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

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

I'm gonna love you Till the heavens Stop the rain.I'm gonna Love you Till the stars Fall from the sky For you and I

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

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

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

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

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.

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.

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.