Quotes by Jim Morrison

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.

— Jim Morrison

Love

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

— Jim Morrison

Friendship

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.

— Jim Morrison

Freedom

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

Courage

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

— Jim Morrison

Courage

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

— Jim Morrison

Wisdom

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

— Jim Morrison

Wisdom

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.

— Jim Morrison

Life

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.

— Jim Morrison

Courage

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.

— Jim Morrison

Truth

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.

— Jim Morrison

Freedom

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

— Jim Morrison

Success

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

— Jim Morrison

Love

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.

— Jim Morrison

Success

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

— Jim Morrison

Life

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.

— Jim Morrison

Life

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.

— Jim Morrison

Happiness

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

— Jim Morrison

Wisdom

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

— Jim Morrison

Wisdom

This is the strangest life I've ever known.

— Jim Morrison

Life

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.

— Jim Morrison

Wisdom

Where's your will to be weird?

— Jim Morrison

Wisdom

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

— Jim Morrison

Life

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

— Jim Morrison

Wisdom