Jim Morrison Quotes

Hatred is a very underestimated emotion.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Cancel my subscription to the resurrection.

This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.

Music inflames temperament.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

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.

Film spectators are quiet vampires.

When you make your peace with authority, you become authority.

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

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

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