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Quotes by Jim Morrison - (50 quotes)

Jim Morrison - From the Art category:

In art... people are trying to confirm their own existences. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Authority category:

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

Jim Morrison - From the Beginning category:

Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Blocks category:

Break on through to the other side! (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Commerce category:

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Commitment category:

The time to hesitate is through. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Doubt category:

Man, I'm sick of doubt. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Drunkenness category:

Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Eccentricity category:

Where's your will to be weird? (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Ego category:

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)

Jim Morrison - From the Enthusiasm category:

At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea. Standing there on Freedom's shore. Waiting for the sun... (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Excellence category:

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

Jim Morrison - From the Fear category:

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)

Jim Morrison - From the Freedom category:

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are... It's got to happen inside first. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Friendship category:

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... (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Future category:

The future's uncertain and the end is always near. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Humour category:

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)

Jim Morrison - From the Importance category:

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

Jim Morrison - From the Interest category:

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos - especially activity that seems to have no meaning. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Life category:

This is the strangest life I've ever known. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Life category:

Actually, I don't remember being born. It must have happened during one of my black-outs. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Magic category:

Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Mentors category:

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)

Jim Morrison - From the Mistakes category:

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)

Jim Morrison - From the Mistakes category:

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

Jim Morrison - From the Music category:

Music inflames temperament. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Music category:

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Performance category:

- An American Prayer...
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Performance category:

We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Play category:

The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Poetry category:

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)

Jim Morrison - From the Poetry category:

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

Jim Morrison - From the Power category:

I am the lizard king. I can do anything. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Prayer category:

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

Jim Morrison - From the Questions category:

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 and are you alive? (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Reality category:

We trade in our reality for a role... give up the ability to feel and, in exchange, put on a mask. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Recognition category:

Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence... (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Religion category:

Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths of the ages / Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Renewal category:

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

Jim Morrison - From the Rewards category:

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Sadness category:

Well, I've been down so Goddamn long, that it looks like up to me. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Seeing category:

More or less, we're all afflicted with the psychology of the voyeur. Not in a strictly clinical or criminal sense, but in our whole physical and emotional stance before the world. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Seeing category:

I see first lots of things which dance - then everything becomes gradually connected. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Senses category:

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)

Jim Morrison - From the Shock category:

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

Jim Morrison - From the Solitude category:

Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Suffering category:

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. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Universe category:

They're making a joke of our universe. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Unknowns category:

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown. Our pale reasoning hides the infinite from us. (Jim Morrison)

Jim Morrison - From the Windows category:

Windows work two ways, mirrors one way. You never walk through mirrors or swim through windows. (Jim Morrison)