Top 25 Jim Morrison Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

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

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

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

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

Music inflames temperament.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

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

Drugs are a bet with your mind.

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.

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

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

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.

This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.

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

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.