Top 100 Jim Morrison Quotes
#1. Lying on stained, wretched sheets with a bleeding virgin
We could plan a murder
Or start a religion.
Jim Morrison
#2. Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.
Jim Morrison
#3. O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.
Jim Morrison
#4. The best songs come unasked for. You don't have to think about them ... Summer is good for songs. When it's real warm, if you have a sense of freedom, not a lot on your mind, and a feeling there's plenty of time, it just seems to be a good climate for music.
Jim Morrison
#6. Los Angeles is a city looking for a ritual to join its fragments, and The Doors are looking for such a ritual also. A kind of electric wedding. We hide ourselves in the music to reveal ourselves.
Jim Morrison
#7. In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night ... starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song. Sometimes we worked out in Venice, looking at the surf. We were together a lot and it was good times for all of us. Acid, sun, friends, the ocean, and poetry and music.
Jim Morrison
#8. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
Jim Morrison
#9. One shouldn't take life so seriously. No one gets out alive anyway.
Jim Morrison
#10. 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
#11. Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.
Jim Morrison
#12. 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
#13. My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition-to write something worthwhile.
Jim Morrison
#14. Out here on the perimeter there are no stars. Out here we is stoned. Immaculate.
Jim Morrison
#15. Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.
Jim Morrison
#16. Could any Hell be more horrible than now, and real?
Jim Morrison
#17. I'll always be a word man, better than a bird man
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#18. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
Jim Morrison
#19. 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
#20. Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws.
Jim Morrison
#21. 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.
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#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine ...
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#25. I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just ... in between.
Jim Morrison
#26. Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity.
Jim Morrison
#28. I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
Jim Morrison
#29. There's the know. And there's the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that's what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th' dooooooooorrr ...
Jim Morrison
#30. It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
Jim Morrison
#31. What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down
Jim Morrison
#32. Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young blood Do you know we are ruled by t.v.
Jim Morrison
#33. Actually I don't remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
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#35. Once you make peace with authority you
become an authority
Jim Morrison
#36. Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts
Jim Morrison
#37. The best songs just come unasked for. You don't have to think about them. Summer is a good time for songs.
Jim Morrison
#38. Nobody understands you better than yourself, but if someone tries to do it is because he loves you.
Jim Morrison
#39. [ ... ] My wild words slip into fusion and risk losing the solid ground. So stranger, get wilder still. Probe the highlands.
Jim Morrison
#40. There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
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#41. All our songs are about love, travel and death.
Jim Morrison
#42. Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.
Jim Morrison
#43. The Gate is Straight, Deep and Wide; Break On Through to the other side.
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#44. All our lives we sweat and save
Building for a shallow grave
Must be something else we say
Somehow to defend this place
Everything must be this way.
Jim Morrison
#45. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder ... the most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces.
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#46. Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
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#47. I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD ... I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it
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#48. It's so eternal. As long as there are people, they can remember words and combinations of words. Nothing else can survive a holocaust, but poetry and songs.
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#50. I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
Jim Morrison
#51. Getting drunk ... you're in complete control up to a point. It's your choice, every time you take a sip. You have a lot of small choices. It's like ... I guess it's the difference between suicide and slow capitulation ...
Jim Morrison
#52. I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft ...
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#53. I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.
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#54. I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
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#55. We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves
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#58. Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day's divinity! First thing you see!!
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#59. I want to have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.
Jim Morrison
#60. A moving or movement away from a station
A waving away from a waving a motion
Amazement a moment amazing a waving
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#61. Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
Jim Morrison
#62. We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets
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#63. Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This includes me.
Jim Morrison
#64. No one thought up being. He who thinks he has, step forward.
Jim Morrison
#65. Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I'll give you love unfolding.
Jim Morrison
#66. The kind of people who can assemble huge crowds into one spot will be the major influences on mass culture in the next decade. The rock enthusiasts have created some of the most exciting theatrical events on the planet.
Jim Morrison
#68. We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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#69. How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?
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#70. This is the strangest life I've ever known
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#71. Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel ... City of Night?
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#72. Urge to come to terms with the "Outside," by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within the skull, to rival the real.
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#73. They got the guns, but we got the numbers.
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#74. Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.
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#76. The human race was dying out Noone left to scream n shout People living on the moon Smog will get you pretty soon
Ship of Fools
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#77. Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?
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#78. The time you wait subtracts the joy
The heads the angel you destroy
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#79. She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In the name of Jesus.
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#81. In the holy solipsism
of the young
Now I can't walk thru a city
street w/out eying each
single pedestrian. I feel
thier vibe thru my
skin, the hair on my neck
it rises.
Jim Morrison
#82. Ride the snake, to=the=lake, the ancient=lake BAAABYY! The snake is loooong, SEVEN miles! [$$] Riiide the snake~! She's OLD, her skin is COLD!~~//Ride the snaaaaake! THE WEST IS THE BEST!~ THE WEST IS THE BEST~~!!~~ [!!] oh yeah!//$\ COME ON! etc. snake/ride you get it...
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#83. There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
Jim Morrison
#86. I'll never wake up in a good mood again.
I'm tired of these stinky boots
Jim Morrison
#87. Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss
Jim Morrison
#88. I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.
Jim Morrison
#89. The appeal of cinema lies in the fear of death.
Jim Morrison
#91. There are images I need to complete my own reality.
Jim Morrison
#92. I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess ... maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.
Jim Morrison
#93. We're reaching for death
on the end of a candle
We're trying for something
that's already found us
Jim Morrison
#94. Why the desire for death.
A clean paper or pure white wall.
One false line, a scratch, a mistake.
Unerasable. So obscureby
adding million other tracings,
blend it, cover over.
But the original scratch remains,
written in gold blood, shining.
Desire for a Perfect Life.
Jim Morrison
#97. People fear death even more than they fear pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over.
Jim Morrison
#98. The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
Jim Morrison
#99. The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun ...
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#100. [ ... ] But this will not do. No, this
will never do. There are
continents and shores which
beseech our understanding.
Seldom have we been so slow.
Seldom have we been so far.
My only wish is to see
Far Arden again.
Jim Morrison
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