60 Quotes by Jim Morrison

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.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where you're 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.

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

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.

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language -- 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.

Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality.

This is the strangest life I have ever known.

I pressed her thigh and death smiled.

Music inflames temperament.

Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, and judgements.

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

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.

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?

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.

When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.

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.

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

I like to let each thing happen -- direct it a little consciously, maybe -- but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.

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

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.

The Night is young and full of rest I can't describe the way she's dress'd She'll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.

The grand highway is crowded w lovers and searchers and leavers so eager to please and forget. Wilderness.

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

How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom?

Look where we worship.

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.

Take it easy baby, take it as it comes -- specialize in having fun!

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.

You cannot petition the Lord with prayer.

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning.

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

The Gate is Straight, Deep and Wide; Break On Through to the other side.

Lets just say I was testing the bounds of reality.

We want the world, and we want it now!

Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel.

People are strange when you're a stranger.

Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.

There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theaters to recall the sensation of rain.

I am the Lizard King. I can do anything!

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.

Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.

All games contain the idea of death.

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

All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.

Most people love you for who you pretend to be.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself -- and especially to feel, or not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at any moment is fine with them.

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.

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

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

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

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

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.