Jim Morrison's Quotes

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

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

Music inflames temperament.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

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

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.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.

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'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.

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.

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

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

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 see myself as an intelligent, sensitive human, with the soul of a clown which forces me to blow it at the most important moments.

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

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

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

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Where's your will to be weird?