Jim Morrison Quotes & Sayings

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. — Jim Morrison

It's so eternal. As long as there are people, they can remember words and combinations of words. Nothing else can survive a holocaust, but poetry and songs. — Jim Morrison

People are strange . . . — Jim Morrison

People fear death even more than they fear pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. — Jim Morrison

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

Sleep is an under-ocean dipped into each night. — Jim Morrison

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

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

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection. — Jim Morrison

Look where we worship. — Jim Morrison

The Gate is Straight, Deep and Wide; Break On Through to the other side. — Jim Morrison

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

Adolescence and early youth ... the fires are burning fastest, right? And your energy level is highest. It demands ... and rock is screaming type music. — Jim Morrison

Or society places a supreme value on control
hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on supression of natural instincts and impulses. — Jim Morrison

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. — Jim Morrison

I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play. — Jim Morrison

No more money, no more fancy dress
This other Kingdom seems by far the best until its other jaw reveals incest & loose obedience to a vegetable law
I will not go
Prefer a Feast of Friends
To the Giant family — 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

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

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 — Jim Morrison

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

Where's your will to be weird? — Jim Morrison

Do you know we are ruled by t.v.? — Jim Morrison

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

We came from over here,
to over there

Then told we wonder
mindless to degree
most seldom furls
in slumber, burns
begins a century. — Jim Morrison

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

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 experience. — Jim Morrison

Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real? — Jim Morrison

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. — Jim Morrison

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws. — Jim Morrison

The spectator is a dying animal. — Jim Morrison

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. — Jim Morrison

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. — Jim Morrison

Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves. — Jim Morrison

I'"ll never look into your eyes again — Jim Morrison

Ride the snake, to=the=lake, the ancient=lake BAAABYY! The snake is loooong, SEVEN miles! [$$] Riiide the snake~! She's OLD, her skin is COLD!~~//Ride the snaaaaake! THE WEST IS THE BEST!~ THE WEST IS THE BEST~~!!~~ [!!] oh yeah!//$\ COME ON! etc. snake/ride you get it... — Jim Morrison

Dreams are at once fruit and outcry against an atrophy of the senses.. — Jim Morrison

I can look at a crowd," he said to his friends, "I can just look at it. It's all, uh, very scientific, and I can diagnose the crowd psychologically. Just four of us, properly positioned, can turn the crowd around. We can cure it. We can make love to it. We can make it riot."
Jim's friends looked at him blankly.
"Hey, man," Jim said, "don't you even want to try? — Jim Morrison

Urge to come to terms with the "Outside," by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within the skull, to rival the real. — Jim Morrison

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

All our songs are about love, travel and death. — Jim Morrison

This is the strangest life I have ever known. — Jim Morrison

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

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

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. — Jim Morrison

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

Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal — Jim Morrison

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? — Jim Morrison

In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night ... starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music. — Jim Morrison

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

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

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

One shouldn't take life so seriously. No one gets out alive anyway. — 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

The subject says: I see first many things which dance ... then everything gradually becomes connected. — Jim Morrison

The time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre — Jim Morrison

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity. — Jim Morrison

Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be? — Jim Morrison

The future is uncertain but the end is always near. — Jim Morrison

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 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. — 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

Drugs are a bet with your mind. — 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

Death Makes Angels of us all. — Jim Morrison

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority. — Jim Morrison

You live you die and death not ends it. — Jim Morrison

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

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. — Jim Morrison

Man, I'm sick of doubt. — 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

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion. — Jim Morrison

This is the strangest life I've ever known — Jim Morrison

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments. — 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 kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet. — 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

Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate. — Jim Morrison

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death. — Jim Morrison

She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus. — Jim Morrison

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

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 — Jim Morrison

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

All games contain the idea of death. — Jim Morrison

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves — Jim Morrison

I'll always be a word man, better than a bird man — Jim Morrison

There are images I need to complete my own reality. — Jim Morrison

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

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. — Jim Morrison

The human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon
Ship of Fools — Jim Morrison

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. — Jim Morrison

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

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. — Jim Morrison

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? — Jim Morrison

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 ... — Jim Morrison

Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts — Jim Morrison

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

There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal. — Jim Morrison

No one gets out of here alive. — Jim Morrison