Jim Morrison Quotes

Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts

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.

I am troubled, immeasurably
by your eyes.
I am struck by the feather
of your soft reply.
The sound of glass
speaks quick, disdain
and conceals
what your eyes fight
to explain.

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

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

No one here gets out alive.

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

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

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??

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the 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.

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